Number of women barristers in UK Supreme Court cases fails to increase in 17 years
Data highlights lack of progress for female advocates in winning prestigious legal work
Data highlights lack of progress for female advocates in winning prestigious legal work

The numbers show pay gaps are lower when the CEO is a woman. Shame there are so few of them

Few women are being recruited to most lucrative practice areas despite big steps forward in sector diversity

Office for National Statistics already under scrutiny over quality of its figures

Survey by European Banking Authority underlines glacial progress on gender diversity

Elite law firm and consultancy among those where disparity rose last year

Newly qualified solicitors will earn as much as £140,000 a year in race to attract and keep talent