There's some truth in the stereotype that Republican men have old-fashioned views about women. According to the General Social Survey, a majority of politically conservative men believe that a woman’s job is “to look after the home and family.” And conservative men are twice as likely to oppose the idea that employers “should make special efforts to hire and promote qualified women.”

Perhaps these views explain the results of an unsettling new study that analyzed promotion rates at the nation’s top 200 law firms between 2007 and 2012. The results show that women have a much harder time making partner when they work under male bosses who donate to Republicans.

Gender inequality is already a huge issue at large law practices. Women consistently earn less, are underrepresented among leadership, and they make partner at about two-thirds the rate of men.

This new report, from Seth Carnahan, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and Brad Greenwood, an assistant professor at Temple University, finds that women face particular disadvantage in offices where their bosses make more political contributions to Republicans than Democrats.

“The gender gap in promotions is almost twice as large when your bosses are conservative, compared to when your bosses are predominately liberal,” Carnahan says.

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