Too Few Women Among Top International Arbitrators

Just two female arbitrators appeared in Focus Europe's first survey of large arbitrations in 2003. Six years after that first scorecard, those two women, Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler and Brigitte Stern, have risen to become the second- and third-busiest arbitrators in the survey, with 20 or more cases apiece. But while the highest echelon of the club has clearly been integrated, women have a precarious foothold in the rest of the list, representing only 4 percent of the arbitrators in this year's survey.