A collaboration between the AALS research team and Katharine T. Schaffzin, Director of the Institute for Professional Leadership and Douglas A. Blaze Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee Winston College of Law, the Women Attorneys in Higher Education Leadership study was designed to understand the experiences, career pathways, challenges, and characteristics of women attorneys leading higher education institutions.
The study of aimed to achieve the following research goals, employing a survey and a qualitative focus group:
- benchmark the number of women attorneys in higher education leadership positions;
- identify characteristics and circumstances that make women lawyers successful in higher education leadership;
- identify structural and cultural obstacles to the advancement of women attorneys into higher education leadership; and
- provide insight into what universities, leaders, and women attorneys can do to promote and support women lawyers into higher education leadership.
Study findings can benefit women attorneys aspiring to leadership, institutional leaders who support them, and the organizations they may lead. Click below to download the full report.