Introduction

My own view is that there are still very few women in both arbitration and mediation, although interestingly more women were discovered in the international field during a recent chat forum on the topic than I would have expected. Ultimately, there are still relatively very few women rising to the top of the professions and inevitably it is only the senior members of the professions that have the credence to develop a serious arbitration practice. The problem therefore, I suspect, is in attracting enough women to stay on in the professions and rise to the top over the ...