Northwestern law professor Tonja Jacobi and student Dylan Schweers used transcripts to analyze the Supreme Court’s oral arguments from 2004 to 2015 and created a data set of all the interruptions by Justices or advocates. Here are some of their findings, as reported in the online journal Aeon:
24%
Average percentage of female Justices on the Court bench over the 12 years studied
32%
Percentage of interruptions that happened to female Justices
4%
Percentage of interruptions made by female Justices
3x
Factor by which female Justices were more likely to be interrupted than male Justices from 2011 to 2015
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