[Sergio]

Plus having 52 percent of his clerks is hardly something to crow about. It's roughly the same amount of females in the general population.

I understand what you are saying, and I am NOT trying to nit-pick, but...

A more accurate representation would be the percentage of women who graduate and successfully pass the BAR versus the percentage of men who do the same.

For example, 100 people graduate from law school and pass the BAR, of that 100, 65 are men, and 35 are women. In this scenario, women being 52% of your clerks would be an over-representation of women in the workplace.

Using the general percentage of women in the population is used a lot because it points to an injustice that many times does not exist. The standard talking point is that women are under represented in the STEM fields, but no one mentions that women do not enroll in STEM fields in the same rates as men do.

Said another way, while women may be under represented as a percentage of total population in the STEM fields, they are hired at a much higher percentage rate than their equally qualified male counterparts.

[Secret Agent Man]

The ratios in STEM categories are not because of institutionalized sexism.

It is self inflicted and voluntary. Namely women do not prefer to go into these fields as a demographic because they don’t like the work and effort to study what they consider to be difficult and boring things that have actual absolute, objective answers.

This is why.

[RedMonqey]

I understand what you are saying, and I am NOT trying to nit-pick, but...

Nah, it's not "nitpicking" when you provide verifiable statistics to aid one's argument. It's called a debate and you win. Can you provide such info? (Yes, I'm too lazy to look for it myself)