ABA asking why M&A is still a man’s world

Eric Talley quoted in Bloomberg Business, March 1, 2015

Most law schools matriculate roughly even numbers of men and women, he said, and the introductory corporations classes typically are 50 percent female. But those numbers change dramatically in more advanced corporate classes. … Talley … said it was “an awakening” when he realized that even his own advanced classes were only 40 percent female. “There’s some zeitgeist about M&A that is causing some who would love the field not to enter it.”