Canada ranked 19^th out of 142 countries in the latest Global Gender Gap Report issued by the World Economic Forum. Archana Medhekar writes that the report “should prompt us to do some soul searching” and to assess…

The qualities the federal government is seeking in appointees to the federal bench seem to be many of the qualities that society values when displayed by women. So explain to me again why there aren’t more women on the bench?

The State secularism charter proposed by the Parti Quebecois government died when the party lost the spring provincial election. But as Julie Latour, a former co-chair of the CBA-Quebec, Women Lawyers Forum notes, that doesn’t mean…

Bob McLeod, Premier of the NWT, has proposed holding a women’s mock parliament to encourage more women to run for political office in the territory. Malinda K. agrees that the need to bring more women into politics is definitely there, but…

Is there any need in 2014 to segregate organizations by gender? Hasn’t the war been fought and won? Lawyer-cum-consultant Linda Robertson argues in this blog post, originally published on Slaw.ca, that women-only groups still have a place in…

TV’s Alicia Florrick, heroine of the show The Good Wife, may have been accompanied by a little more “scandal, glamour fanfare” than most women when they return to the practise of law after a long absence.

You have to love the people who knew at the age of three what they wanted to be when they grew up, and never changed their minds. But if you’re someone whose career path is somewhat less clear, never fear: most adults can expect to change jobs and…

Survivors of domestic violence become important examples for current victims of what the future can hold, says Archana Medhekar, a practising family law lawyer in Toronto. Their shared history gives the two groups a unique bond that makes…

Sara Gottlieb, who works in the Ontario Ombudsman’s Office, interviews legal entrepreneur Shelby Austin about her experience in starting ATD Legal Services (which has since been sold to Deloitte).

Women choose to opt out — that’s the explanation given for women’s lack of upward mobility in certain areas, including the legal profession. But, argues Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich, a staff lawyer with the CBA, that argument fails to acknowledge…