18 November 2020
Bar chair Amanda Pinto QC has criticised ‘shocking discrepancies in pay between male and female barristers’ revealed in Bar Mutual data for the year ending 2019
The statistics, published this month, showed women were under-represented in most practice areas and tended to receive less money.
For example, in family, one of the few practice areas where there are more women (52% of practitioners) than men, they made less money (37% of the total). Pinto said: ‘We must confront, not hide, this profession-wide problem. The fair allocation of work must be embedded across the whole Bar.’
