The Law Society is plugging a gender diversity and inclusion charter to resolve a lack of women in the profession's higher ranks. NBR View's Susan Wood talks to lawyer Stacey Shortall on potential solutions.
Auckland sculptor and former lawyer Gill Gatfield wrote a seminal text Without Prejudice: Women in the Law, in 1996 exploring the causes of systemic and cultural bias against women within the legal profession over a 100-year period, and outlining strategies for change.
