Solo and Small Firm
The Practitioner Winter 2016, Volume 22, Issue 1
Content
- Getting Paid As a Solo Without Breaching the Ethics Rules
- Letter From the Chair
- Letter From the Editor
- MCLE Article: Can I drive home after happy hour? How does alcohol absorb into your body?
- MCLE Article: Recognizing and Addressing Implicit Gender Bias in the Arena of the Solo & Small Firm
- Solo & Small Firm Spotlight: Luke Zimmerman
- Specializing Law Practice: Excellent Service, Efficiently Delivered - Part II
- Table of Contents
- The Often-Overlooked Weapon of Seeking a Cost Bond against Foreign Plaintiffs
- Gender Equality Sought with New Legislation
Gender Equality Sought with New Legislation
By Cynthia Elkins
Cynthia Elkins, Principal of Elkins Employment Law, whose practice provides representation to private sector employers on their personnel and employment law matters including litigation defense, compliance and best practices.
HISTORICAL GENDER-BASED WAGE DIFFERENTIALS
In 2014 a woman working full-time in California earned an average of $0.84 to every dollar a man earned, and the national average was a wage gap of $0.78 to the dollar. The wage gap was much worse for Latina women in California, with such women making only $0.44 for every dollar earned by white men.1