Women lawyers contributed to the civil society movements by establishing the women’s associations and Crisis centers for women victims of violence. They proactively participated in advocating for changes in the law, especially the Personal Status Law at that time, the Criminal Law, the Nationality Law, and the Labor Law, as well as for the Violence Against Women Law.

Women lawyers contributed to the dynamism of the Association Movement by submitting a memorandum in 2011 to the Constitutional Review Advisory Committee, this memorandum aimed at constitutionalize the gender equality, which was entirely adopted.

Reference must be made to the role of Women lawyers in occupying decision-making positions by virtue of their political experience, whether in parliament, local authorities or ministries, in order to manage the public affairs.

Reference must be made to the first media initiative by publishing the first newspaper on the women’s rights "8 March" 1983, by its Director, Prof. Aisha Lakhmas. A group of Women lawyers involved in this newspaper raised a range of issues in the Personal Status Law suffered by women.

In addition to the participation of Women Lawyers in Human rights workshops by membership in human rights organizations, and their participation in the national forum organized by the Bar Association of Morocco (ASSOCIATION DES BAREAUX DU MAROC), in 1987 in Oujda, to contribute to human rights workshops and discuss its issues in terms of protection and promotion of human rights culture.

The human rights process led to the appointment of the Women lawyers in the National Council for Human Rights (CONSEIL NATIONAL DES DROITS DE L'HOMME) and its regional committees.

Regarding the professional management, the Moroccan women started to be admit to the legal profession in 1960. It is recorded that the number of official Women lawyers in Morocco is more than 3,500, out of 13,602 official lawyers, according to statistics carried out in 2020 to renew the organizational structures of the Bar Councils.

The absence of Women lawyers in the Captain positions and the under-representation of women in Bar Councils were also recorded.

During the recent professional elections, the under-representation, if not absence, of women in some Bar Councils was recorded.

There are 16 Bar Associations, 6 of which without women's representation in its Councils are recorded, and the remainder (10 Bar Associations) have 1-3 women lawyers, except the Bar Association of Rabat, which has 4 Women Lawyers.

This highlights that the total number of council members of these Associations is 240, while the number of Women Lawyers members of these councils is up to 22, meaning that the percentage of Women Lawyers is 9%.

How can such an imbalanced situation be rectified, despite the Women Lawyers occupying high positions in the state, some of them were ministers, parliamentarians, presidents and members of constitutional institutions, as well as some of them were chairwomen of the councils who managing the local public affairs.

This strong presence is absent in terms of their representation in the Bar Councils.

The major challenge is how do we rectify this situation?

It will be rectified by changing the law governing the profession, by providing for the Women Lawyers' representation in these councils, as corrected and provided in the Morocco Constitution, when it provided for the Women Judges' representation in the High Council of the Judiciary.

Deployment of the Official Women Lawyers as per the Appeals Chambers until 31 December 2020.

Appeals Chamber	Number of Women Lawyers in the Chamber	Percentage of the Women Lawyers of the total number of lawyers in the Chamber
Rabat	603	% 32
Casablanca	1251	% 29
Jadida	64	% 18
Fes	219	% 23
Marrakesh - Ouarzazate	236	% 24
Asfi	55	% 21
Meknes-Errachidia	159	% 22
Agadir- Laayoune- Guelmim	76	% 12
Tangiers	174	% 20
Tetouan	47	% 16
Settat	78	% 21
Beni Mellal	48	% 13
Nador	96	% 25
Kenitra	26	% 10
Taza	111	% 21
Khouribga	33	% 17
Rabat	46	% 21
Total	3322
Women Percentage	% 32

Deployment of the Trainee Women Lawyers as per the Appeals Chambers until 31 December 2020.

Appeals Chamber	Number of Trainee Women Lawyers in the Chamber	Percentage of the Trainee Women Lawyers of the total number of Trainee Lawyers in the Chamber
Rabat	84	% 54
Casablanca	204	% 39
Jadida	14	% 26
Fes	10	% 26
Marrakesh - Ouarzazate	53	% 27
Asfi	10	% 42
Meknes-Errachidia	14	% 26
Agadir- Laayoune- Guelmim	32	% 19
Tangiers	90	% 29
Tetouan	16	% 22
Settat	1	% 100
Beni Mellal	15	% 29
Nador	19	% 28
Kenitra	16	% 29
Taza	8	% 57
Khouribga	3	% 60
Total	589
Women Percentage	% 33

A detailed table of the number of the Women Lawyers in the Bar Councils in the light of results of elections carried out in December 2020.

Bar Association	Total number of council members	The number of the Women Lawyers Members of the council	Percentage
Rabat	22	04	% 18
Casablanca	22	02	% 9
Jadida	13	00	% 0
Fes	18	00	% 0
Marrakesh - Ouarzazate	18	03	% 17
Asfi	11	02	% 18
Meknes-Errachidia	16	02	% 13
Agadir- Laayoune- Guelmim	18	00	% 0
Tangiers	18	03	% 17
Tetouan	13	02	% 15
Settat	13	01	% 8
Beni Mellal	11	02	% 18
Nador	11	00	% 0
Kenitra	14	01	% 7
Taza	11	00	% 0
Khouribga	11	00	% 0
Total	240	22
Women Percentage	% 09