The National Association of Women Lawyers’s report on the status of women in the legal profession is out. And I thought I finally found something to cheer about: The female equity partner rate is now 17 percent! That’s a two percent increase since NAWL’s last report in October, 2012.

I was so excited I emailed some of the honchos at NAWL to ask them why the report didn’t make a big fuss about that uptick.