1、Shattering Systemic Barriers:How to Advance Gender Equality inthe Intellectual Property ProfessionCopyright 2024 by the International Trademark AssociationAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,distributed,or transmitted in any form or by any means,including photocopying,r

2、ecording,or other electronic or mechanical methods,without prior written permission of the copyright owner,except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.IntroductionIn late 2023,the International Trademark Associat

3、ion(INTA)convened a diverse project team of INTA members to develop a Gender Representation Survey investigating how gender affects the experience of trademark practitioners in the workplace,with a focus on representation,career progression,and work-life integration.The experiences of women in trade

4、marks are unique and exist within their cultural and historical context.This research was undertaken to capture the multitude of experiences and perspectives represented throughout the global intellectual property(IP)community and to reveal what it is like to work as a woman in the trademark industr

5、y today.The global IP community is incredibly diverse.The INTA membership includes nearly 36,000 professionals from more than 6,400 organizations across 181 jurisdictions.This research aims to uncover deep insight into the gender-based experiences of trademark practitioners around the world today,re

6、veal the key indicators shaping those experiences and defining our workplace,and capture how trademark professionals feel about their own experiences.A limitation of the research is that it only reflects the experiences of those individuals who responded to the survey and participated in focus group