Turning points and transitions : Women's careers in the legal profession

This study is based on a social survey of the Ontario legal profession conducted in the autumn of 2002. The survey is part of a larger program of research investigating women in the legal profession. The program began in 1989 with a report on the demographic composition of the Ontario legal profession. This initial report, Women in the Legal Profession (1989), commissioned by the Women in the Legal Profession Committee at the Law Society of Upper Canada, led to a large-scale survey of members of the profession in 1990. The survey sampled over 1,500 lawyers called to the Ontario Bar between 1975 and 1990, an historic period in which women entered the legal profession in sizeable numbers for the first time.