2023 marked the centenary commemoration of the first group of women allowed to join the legal profession in South Africa following the promulgation of the Women Legal Practitioners 7 of 1923. While there has been inclusion of women in the legal profession over the years, women in the profession have since continued to face challenges such as institutionalised exclusion and discrimination, sexual harassment, and bullying within the profession.

Much more work remains to be done to ensure the profession’s transformation. Part of that work includes unveiling the numerous challenges that women in the profession face and  how these impediments hinder the development of the South African judicial system.