Interactions with Powerful Female Colleagues Promote Diversity in Hiring
研究发现，联邦法官与女性同事共审案件会显著提高其雇佣女性法律助理的概率，表明高层多样性可带动入门级机会。
We study the effect of hearing cases alongside female judicial colleagues on the probability that a federal judge hires a female law clerk. Federal judges are assigned to judicial panels at random and have few limitations on their choices of clerks. Using a unique dataset of federal case records merged with judicial hiring information, we find a significant effect of the fraction of copanelists who are female on a male judge’s likelihood of hiring a female clerk. This finding suggests that increases in the diversity of the upper rungs of a profession can create opportunities at the entry level.