Introduction

The international dispute resolution community is well aware of ArbitralWomen's efforts related to gender equality and to raising awareness about biases, and of the Equal Representation in Arbitration (ERA) Pledge launched in 2016. Last year, the major dispute resolution organisations published statistics about female arbitrators appointed by their organisations, including ICC. It is fascinating to see how rapidly minds have evolved in the last three years and how the gender issue is, in addition to no longer being taboo, an important issue that dispute resolution stakeholders have ...