At the Supreme Court, women are more likely to be successful if they conform to stereotypes about their gender

There are relatively few women among the attorneys arguing at the Supreme Court, despite the fact that nearly 40 percent of all practicing attorneys are women. Given that overt discrimination is widely discouraged, could implicit biases against women be a cause of this poor representation? In new research, Shane A. Gleason, Jennifer J. Jones, & Jessica Rae McBean examine the language used in documents attorneys file with the Supreme Court, finding that compliance with gender norms is linked to greater success for both men and women at the Court. They also find that the Supreme Court only enforces these gender norms when an opinion is written by a male justice.