Bloomberg Law
December 16, 2016, 10:14 PM UTC

More Women Than Men in Law School For First Time Ever

Timothy Pratt

For the first time ever, women make up a slight majority of students enrolled at American Bar Association-accredited law schools, according to data released this week.

The ABA data shows 55,728 women are enrolled in law schools. Put another way: 50.3 percent of J.D. students nationwide are women.

It’s the highest percentage of women since the ABA began keeping track of gender and law school enrollment in 1963. Fifty-three years ago, 3.7 percent of law school students were women.

The number also continues a six-year trend of increasing percentages of women enrolled in law school, said Kyle McEntee, executive director of Law School ...

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