Irish Solicitors’ reach gender balance

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Created: Thursday, March 05 2015 22:01

In a first for any legal profession in the world, female Irish solicitors now outnumber male solicitors practising in Ireland.

The Director General of the Law Society of Ireland, Ken Murphy, said, “There were exactly 4,623 female practising solicitors and exactly 4,609 male practising solicitors at the close of 2014. It was just 92 years ago that the first woman solicitor was admitted to the profession. Since then the race to equality has been incredible.”

Teri Kelly, Law Society of Ireland’s Director of Representation and Member Services, explains in an article for the Law Society’s Gazette, “To our knowledge, this is the first time a female majority has existed in any legal profession anywhere in the world.”