Gender 2006/7

Gender: partners and employees in our London office 2006/7	Partners and principal consultants (per cent)	Associates (per cent)	Trainees (per cent)	Paralegals (per cent)	Business services (per cent)	London office (per cent)
Female	16	43	54	64	72	57
Male	84	57	46	36	28	43

In London, we have a slightly higher percentage of female partners than the average of 12 per cent for the firm. However, given the number of women we recruit as trainee lawyers each year – an average of 49 per cent since 2003 – we would hope to see more women becoming partners in the near future.

Our efforts to deal with the gender imbalance in our firm are outlined elsewhere within this report, see Our people around the world.