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Perceiving Discrimination: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the Legal Workplace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2019

Robert L. Nelson ,
Ioana Sendroiu ,
Ronit Dinovitzer  and
Meghan Dawe
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Abstract

Using quantitative and qualitative data from a large national sample of lawyers, we examine self-reports of perceived discrimination in the legal workplace. Across three waves of surveys, we find that persons of color, white women, and LGBTQ attorneys are far more likely to perceive they have been a target of discrimination than white men. These differences hold in multivariate models that control for social background, status in the profession and the work organization, and characteristics of the work organization. Qualitative comments describing these experiences reveal that lawyers of different races, genders, and sexual orientations are exposed to distinctive types of bias, that supervisors and clients are the most frequent sources of discriminatory treatment, and the often-overt character of perceived discrimination. These self-reports suggest that bias in the legal workplace is widespread and rooted in the same hierarchies of race, gender, and sexual orientation that pervade society.

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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 1051 - 1082
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© 2019 American Bar Foundation 

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