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Some might argue, however, that the system itself will still be male-dominated, even if there are more female lawyers, because of deeply entrenched institutional barriers to female advancement in the professions most often pursued by lawyers: lawyering, politics and business. So the most powerful and influential positions in those fields will continue to be occupied by men, leaving women to do the grunt work. While that may be true for a while, hopefully it won't stay that way for long.

Women seeking careers in the post-law school job market today probably encounter remnants of the same barriers their predecessors experienced trying to gain admission to law school 40 years ago. Those barriers, according to the most recent admissions statistics, have crumbled. With more and more women entering the legal profession, the institutional hurdles that exist in employment will also begin to crumble.

When the majority of the 2004 "crop" of new lawyers is female, employers will have no choice but to make adjustments in their operations to allow for women to advance past the glass ceiling and into the offices that have previously been exclusively male territory. Now women finally have more than just a foot in the door they've blown the door wide open.

Women Surpass Men in Ph.D. Degrees

Women earned more doctorates than men at American universities in 2002, according to results recently released by the Survey of Earned Doctorates.

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Stacy Waite, College Reporter