Timeline

Excluded & Alone: Examining the Experiences of Native American Women in the Law and a Path Towards Equity Report

Legal Careers of Parents and Child Caregivers: Results and Best Practices from a National Study of The Legal Profession Report

Gritty Teams: Leveraging Grit and Growth Mindset to Drive Team Success Report | Toolkit

2021 World Forum for Women in the Law: Women Power and Disrupting the Status Quo Report

How to Engage Men on Issues of Gender Equity in the Legal Profession Report

How Unappealing: an Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap among Appellate Attorneys Report

In their Own Words: Experienced Women Lawyers Explain Why They Are Leaving Their Law Firms and the Profession Report

This Talk Isn't Cheap: Women of Color and White Women Attorneys Find Common Ground Report | Toolkit

Left Out and Left Behind: The Hurdles, Hassles, and  Heartaches of Achieving Long-Term  Legal Careers for Women of Color Report

Walking Out the Door: The Facts, Figures, and Future of Experienced Women Lawyers in Private Practice Report

You Can't Change What You Can't See: Interrupting Racial and Gender Bias in the Legal Profession  Read the FREE Executive Summary | The full report is complimentary to ABA members and for purchase to nonmembers. Not an ABA member? Join now for exclusive membership benefits.

Zero Tolerance: Best Practices for Combating Sex-Based Harassment in the Legal Profession Book

Zero Tolerance: Identifying and Combating Sex-Based Harassment in the Legal Profession Toolkit

Grit, the Secret to Advancement: Stories of Successful Women Lawyers Book

First Chairs at Trial More Women Need  Seats at the Table Report

Using Grit and Growth Mindset to Advance Women in the Law Toolkit

Closing the Gap: A Road Map for Achieving Gender Pay Equity in Law Firm Partner Compensation Report

Learning to Lead: What Really Works for Women in Law Book

Power of the Purse: How General Counsel Can Impact Pay Equity for Women Lawyers Report

What You Need to Know About Negotiating Compensation Report

Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Fortune 500 Legal Departments Report

Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Fortune 500 Legal Departments Executive Summary

The Road to Independence: 101 Women's Journeys to Starting Their Own Law Firms Book

The Commission publishes the second edition of Fair Measure: Toward Effective Attorney Evaluations.

From Visible Invisibility to Visibly Successful: Success Strategies for Law Firms and Women of Color in Law Firms Report

The Commission publishes the second edition of Sex-Based Harassment: Workplace Policies for the Legal Profession.

The Commission publishes Charting Our Progress: The Status of Women in the Profession Today, which summarizes testimony presented and data. collected by the Commission at hearings held in 2003.

Following national focus groups and extensive qualitative research, the Commission publishes a groundbreaking report, Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms, which presents the findings of survey and focus group research and concludes with specific recommendations for law firms interested in retaining women of color. | Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Law Firms Executive Summary

The Commission publishes Empowerment and Leadership: Tried and True Methods for Women Lawyers, based on nationwide focus groups and other research.

The Commission conducts Managing Partner and General Counsel Leadership Summit: Progress, Success and Achievement for Women in Law, an initiative of ABA President Dennis Archer, in New York City.

Following the successful summit, the Commission publishes Walking the Talk: Creating a Law Firm Culture Where Women Succeed, offering a compilation of the latest best practices and action items for recruitment, retention, development, and advancement of women in law firms.

The Difference ‘Difference’ Makes: Women and Leadership published [by Stanford University Press].

The Commission publishes Legal Progeny: A Guide to Providing Child Care Benefits for Legal Employers, Lawyers, and Bar Associations.

The Commission launches Women Trailblazers in the Law: Our Visions, Our Voices, involving the oral histories of leading women private practitioners, government and public interest attorneys, judges, and legal academicians.

The Commission publishes Sex-Based Harassment: Workplace Policies for the Legal Profession, which discusses how to formulate and implement harassment policies, how to respond to a complaint of sex-based harassment, and how to resolve such a complaint.

Continuing to focus on the profession’s need to better accommodate lawyers’ personal and professional commitments, the Commission publishes Balanced Lives: Changing the Culture of Legal Practice, which includes a model alternative work schedule and a model family leave and medical policy.

The third status report – The Unfinished Agenda: A Report on the Status of Women in the Legal Profession – is published.

Multicultural Women Attorneys Network publishes Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters: Words of Wisdom from Multicultural Women Attorneys Who’ve Been There and Done That, a unique collection of letters offering advice and guidance from women attorneys to their younger colleagues.

The Commission publishes Don’t Just Hear It Through the Grapevine: Studying Gender Questions at Your Law School, which helps law school leaders reduce or eliminate barriers inhibiting the law school experience for women.

Multicultural Women Attorneys Network publishes A Report on the Experiences of Native American Women Lawyers, a supplement to The Burdens of Both, The Privileges of Neither.

The Commission publishes Fair Measure: Toward Effective Attorney Evaluations, which provides constructive guidance on how to develop and implement an evaluation process that establishes objective criteria for successful performance, eliminates bias, and recognizes the value of diversity.

As a result of national hearings on the experiences of women law students and faculty, the Commission publishes Elusive Equality: The Experiences of Women in Legal Education, which revealed repetitive and predictable concerns raised by these women.

Following a new round of hearings, the Commission publishes Unfinished Business: Overcoming the Sisyphus Factor, which revealed that there were no dramatic changes in the seven years since the first report on the status of women in the profession.

The Multicultural Women Attorneys Network (a joint project of the Commission on Women in the Profession and the Commission on Opportunities for Minorities) publishes The Burdens of Both, The Privileges of Neither, focusing on the unique concerns of multicultural women attorneys.

The Commission releases Lawyers and Balanced Lives: A Guide to Drafting and Implementing Workplace Policies for Lawyers, containing recommended policies for parental leave, alternative work schedules, and sexual harassment.

The first annual Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards were presented at the ABA Annual Meeting luncheon, which became the largest ticketed event at the Annual Meeting.

Following the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings that exposed the need for education on sexual harassment, the Commission published Lawyers and Balanced Lives: A Guide to Drafting and Implementing Sexual Harassment Policies for Lawyers.

Perspectives – a quarterly newsletter providing the latest news on a wide range of issues directly affecting women attorneys – is launched.

The Commission releases its first annual Goal IX Report Card on the number of women in ABA leadership positions, illustrating that the ABA’s record of integrating women was unimpressive.

The Commission conducts national hearings on the status of women in the legal profession. As a result of these hearings, the Report and Recommendation on the Status of Women in the Legal Profession was presented to the ABA House of Delegates.

ABA Board of Governors creates the Commission on Women in the Profession.