The Women, Leadership & Equality Program combines teaching, experiential learning, and scholarship about women in the legal profession and provides an opportunity for students to engage in critical thinking about cutting-edge issues in gender and leadership. The Program helps students develop the professional skills necessary for success and leadership positions in law, business, government, the nonprofit sector, and the judiciary through the Rose Zetzer Fellowship Program, which offers training in professional skills, including communication, organizational dynamics, leadership, and personal negotiation through externships and other practice-based learning.
The Women, Leadership & Equality Program sponsors a series of Papers that includes presentations and publications by leading scholars. In 2013, the program sponsored Switch Point Stories: Tales of Sex, Race, and Sexuality.
The Founding Director of the Women, Leadership & Equality Program is Professor Paula Monopoli.
Browse the Women, Leadership & Equality Programs:
2020: Challenging Gender Bias in the Legal Profession
2015: Roundtable on Increasing Author Diversity in Legal Scholarship: Bibliography
2013: Switch Point Stories: Tales of Sex, Race, and Sexuality
2010: The Search for Satisfaction: Report from the UMDLaw Alumni Career Path Survey
2009: Hard Facts: Retaining and Advancing Women Lawyers in Challenging Economic Times
2008 - Gender and the Presidency
2007 - Roundtable on Women in Legal Academia
2007 - Breaking Barriers: Current Issues Relating to Women, Labor and the Law
2006 - The Global Advancement of Women: Barriers and Best Practices