Gender on Trial: Women Plaintiffs, Lawyers, and Judges in State Civil Trials

• In Event: Have's and Have-Nots: Courts and Inequality

Brief Overview

We use an original data set and a matching design to determine whether women litigants suffer a disadvantage at trial, compared to men, when participating in similar cases. We also control for the potential influence of judge and attorney gender.

Author

• Tao Lotus Dumas, The College of New Jersey