Where do we start? The gender gap in legal education and the legal academy: Afterword to the Foreword by Gráinne de Búrca, Rosalind Dixon, and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy

Abstract In the spirit of collaborative enterprise, this Afterword builds upon one aspect that the authors had time to only briefly mention but not fully develop: the existence and depth of the gender gap in legal education and its connection to the gender gap in legal academia. I invite the reader to view the gender gap in legal academia as starting not from the point of employment but even before that. After all, if we are to create more opportunities and inculcate a more gender-equitable environment for the legal academy, including increasing the proportion of female academics, we need to also ask the question: From where would these female candidates come? Are there enough candidates in the pipeline? As we broaden our perspective, we see that the gender gap often begins with law schools, and addressing the gender gap in legal academia must include consideration of the gender gap in legal education as a whole.