Fewer Women Are Seeking Law Degrees

The decrease comes at a time when the earning power of women in their 20s is outpacing men of the same age, at least in several major U.S. metropolitan areas. According to research from Department of Sociology at Queens College in New York, women in their 20s in Dallas, for example, earn 20 percent more than men of the same age. In New York, they earn 17 percent more.