Experiencing Discrimination Summary

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The article Experiencing Discrimination: Race and Retention in America’s Largest Law Firms seeks to understand why ethnic and racial minority lawyers are underrepresented among partners in elite law firms even though their number in the legal profession has substantially increased. The author use the literature on women’s experiences within the legal profession to explain the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities in the same workplace.

Becker’s human capital theory is extended from gender to race in order to explain the racial paradox of the corporate law firm. The racial paradox refers to the overrepresentation of associates from minority groups and their paradoxical underrepresentation among partners. Sander theorizes that lower grades