Majority of Irish solicitors outside of Dublin are men
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Men make up a narrow majority of Irish solicitors outside of Dublin, according to a newly-published break-down of practising solicitor numbers.
For the first time, the Law Society of Ireland has published a breakdown of solicitor numbers by county and gender.
Across the 26 counties, a majority of solicitors (52 per cent) are women. However, when Dublin is excluded, women make up just 49 per cent of the profession and are narrowly outnumbered by men.
In 17 counties (65 per cent), more men are solicitors than women. The biggest gap is in Co Tipperary, where 63 per cent of solicitors are men.
Writing in the Gazette, Law Society director general Ken Murphy said: “Perhaps the most powerful source of human identity, even more powerful than county identity in Ireland, is gender.
“The feminisation of the legal profession has been a global trend for decades. But the pace of the trend now has massive momentum.
“As the Law Society proudly proclaimed in 2014, the first legal profession in the world where the majority of practising members is female was the solicitors’ profession in this jurisdiction.”
However, Mr Murphy acknowledged that the “traditional male hegemony, in numerical terms, within the profession continues to prevail in the great majority of individual counties”.
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