Global Legal Post
The International Bar Association (IBA) has launched the second phase of its ambitious 50:50 by 2030 gender equality project, which seeks to address the lack of gender parity at senior levels across the legal profession.
The IBA’s Legal Policy and Research Unit will undertake the project’s next phase in collaboration with the charitable foundation of leading US legal publisher LexisNexis, starting with a worldwide survey aimed at all female practitioners across various legal sectors.
The survey seeks to understand the experiences of individual women practitioners, including obstacles to practising law, reasons for considering leaving the field, opinions on diversity initiatives, the effects of menopause and the impact of caring responsibilities on women’s careers.
The initiative was one of the key presidential priorities of the IBA’s immediate past president, Spanish lawyer Almudena Arpón de Mendívil Aldama, during her two-year tenure. The first phase led to 11 gender reports on jurisdictions including the UK, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Mexico, among others spanning five continents. The initiative won an award at the 2024 Women and Diversity in Law Awards, organised by this title.
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