Unless you can provide the info that ‘Sergio” hinted at, my argument is no different from yours. Statistical the same as the general population.
From Google
What percent of engineers are female?
“In the U.S., about 18 percent to 20 percent of engineering students are now women, an improvement over the abysmal numbers of 25 years ago,” says Joanne McGrath Cohoon, an associate professor in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia, where 31% of undergraduate engineering ...
Engineering Still Needs More Women
https://www.asme.org/career-education/articles/.../engineering-still-needs-more-women
It seems however that my assumption that the numbers for STEM would translate to the legal profession were incorrect. My bad. In 2017, in California, for the month of February, 79 males passed the BAR exam and 79 women did as well.
Can I have some BBQ sauce for my crow?
I wasn’t really disagreeing on numbers.
What I disagreed with was the assertion that it was nothing to crow about.
I think it is indeed a fine thing for him to claim credit for if one accepts the premise (as I do) that men and women are equal in capability when it comes to performing tasks in the legal profession.
To me, his proportions of men and women working with and for him is indicative of merit based employment...which is the antithesis of Affirmative Action hires, which is something I hope we can definitely agree on.