Beschreibung:
The book offers valuable insights by questioning and criticising the status quo, paving the way to a gender equal future in the judiciary. A significant new contribution to international scholarship in the field, this book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession.
Introduction: Women and judicial appointments, Ulrike Schultz and Tabeth Masengu 1. Being a woman judge in Turkish judicial culture, Seda Kalem 2. A five-year gender equality score card for the Philippine Supreme Court under its first woman Chief Justice: opportunities seized and missed, Emily Sanchez Salcedo 3. The Judicial Service Commission and the appointment of Women: more to it than meets the eye, Tabeth Masengu 4. Women in the Nigerian judiciary: considerable headway or organised progress? Enibokun Uzebu-Imarhiagbe 5. The glass ceiling at the highest levels of the Spanish judiciary, Mónica García Goldar 6. Problems in the pathways to judicial success: women in the legal profession in Northern Ireland, Leah Treanor