Chief Justice Martha Koome on Tuesday presided over the launch of a report on women leadership in law.
The report looks into women in leadership across the Kenyan bar, the bench and the legal academia in Nairobi.
Rose Wachuka from IAWL said that the report will help understand women's representation in law and leadership.
"We know we have increased the numbers of women entering the academia, the bench and also the bar. But we know that there are barriers to them rising to the highest levels of all," she said.
She said they want to find out where the barriers were, so that they can propose programmatic recommendations that could help women rise to the highest levels for each of these sectors.
"This research uses intersectionality in a theoretical framework and tries to explain the multiple social categories, identities and contexts which influence women's ascension to the leadership of the judiciary, the academia and the bar," she said.
She said the findings from the study will highlight the impact of the challenges, the barriers that women are facing in rising to leadership, and the main recommendations for interventions.
"This report could not have come at a more opportune time, if any of us have had a chance to look at the report prepared on the SDGs in 2022," she said.
On goal five, she said, which is on gender equality, one of the things that the report captured, there is not even half of the information needed to monitor progress on gender equality.
Therefore, she added, continuous collection of statistics is vital in monitoring whatever progress being made.
"So we are grateful that the Institute invested in gathering this data so that we know where to start even as we build on the work that has already been done on gender inequality," she concluded
Former Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza, ex-ICC judges Effie Owuor and Joyce Oluoch also attended the launch.
The Law Society of Kenya Vice chair Faith Odhiambo was also among other high ranking women judiciary leaders present.
The Institute for African Women in Law (IAWL) was launching the report in Nairobi.
