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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Ignorant. We have several female managing partners, recently for the international firms in Sg.
Also, the High Court of Australia currently has a female majority for the first time.
The climate is changing.
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Whilst I don't agree with that statement about women making poor lawyers, I will also take stats from Western countries with a hefty pinch of salt.
Western countries have all sorts of politically correct unwritten diversity quotas that may skew meritocratic selection.
Case in point, Joe Biden's outright commitment to get a black female nominated to the SCOTUS.
Due to culture wars in Western countries, true meritocratic selections are often made subordinate to other priorities that are perceived to be more important such as achieving some kind of racial or gender parity to correct for real or perceived past discriminations.