Gender Equity Initiatives

• Information on Deloitte & Touche LLP's Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women:
  http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/section_node/0,1042,sid%253D2261,00.html
  
  
• Information on the New York State Bar Association's Gender Equity Task Force, including a copy of their
  Gender Equity Self Evaluation for Law Firms and Employers and a copy of their Gender Equity Best Practices:
  http://www.nysba.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Attorney_Resources/Law_Practice_Management1/Gender_Equity_Self_Evaluation/Gender_Equity_Self_Evaluation.htm
  

• Final report and recommendations of the NYSBA's Committee on Women in the Law:
  http://www.nysba.org/Content/ContentGroups/Reports3/Women_in_the_Law_report/womeninlawreport-recs.pdf
  
  
• The Massachusetts Equality Commission's Women Lawyers and Obstacles to Leadership Report [http://web.mit.edu/workplacecenter/docs/law-report_4-07.pdf]
  tracks the career paths of nearly 1,000 women and men in Massachusetts law firms, revealing a stacked deck facing women
  and complex family factors that result in their large scale exodus from firms. At the same time, it dispels the myth that
  women are leaving law firms to stay at home by tracing their departures to workplace destinations that recognize family needs.

• The Chicago Bar Association's Alliance for Women http://www.chicagobar.org/calltoaction/ asks all Chicago law firms to join its
  “Call to Action” project to help promote women's leadership in the legal profession.

• The San Francisco Bar Association's No Glass Ceiling Initiative http://www.sfbar.org/diversity/no_glass_ceiling.aspx was formed in 2001
  to increase opportunities for women to serve in leadership positions within the legal profession in the San Francisco Bay Area.

- Last Updated 3/7/07 -