Hyderabad, Oct. 14 -- Men were handed seven of every 10 arbitrator appointments made by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Delhi and Bombay last year, a study by the NALSAR University of Law has found.

Of the 2,283 appointments made in 2025 where the arbitrator's gender was recorded, 1,598 went to men and 685 to women. The figures come from the report "Arbitrator Appointments in Numbers," brought out by the university's Milon K Banerji Centre for Arbitration Law.

The skew was sharpest in the apex court, where men accounted for 79.17 per cent of appointments. The figure stood at 71.30 per cent in the Bombay High Court and 68.88 per cent in the Delhi High Court.

All the appointments were made under Section 11 of the Arbitration and...