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Gender and the Judiciary in Africa - From Obscurity to Parity? (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,492
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Gender and the Judiciary in Africa - From Obscurity to Parity? (Paperback): Gretchen Bauer, Josephine Dawuni

Gender and the Judiciary in Africa - From Obscurity to Parity? (Paperback)

Gretchen Bauer, Josephine Dawuni

Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Politics

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Between 2000 and 2015, women ascended to the top of judiciaries across Africa, most notably as chief justices of supreme courts in common law countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Zambia, but also as presidents of constitutional courts in civil law countries such as Benin, Burundi, Gabon, Niger and Senegal. Most of these appointments was a "first" in terms of the gender of the chief justice. At the same time, women are being appointed in record numbers as magistrates, judges and justices across the continent. While women's increasing numbers and roles in African executives and legislatures have been addressed in a burgeoning scholarly literature, very little work has focused on women in judiciaries. This book addresses the important issue of the increasing numbers and varied roles of women judges and justices, as judiciaries evolve across the continent. Scholars of law, gender politics and African politics provide overviews of recent developments in gender and the judiciary in nine African countries that represent north, east, southern and west Africa as well as a range of colonial experiences, postcolonial trajectories and legal systems, including mixes of common, civil, customary, or sharia law. In the process, each chapter seeks to address the following questions: What has been the historical experience of the judicial system in a given country, from before colonialism until the present? What is the current court structure and where are the women judges, justices, magistrates and other women located? What are the selection or appointment processes for joining the bench and in what ways may these help or hinder women to gain access to the courts as judges and justices? Once they become judges, do women on the bench promote the rights of women through their judicial powers? What are the challenges and obstacles facing women judges and justices in Africa? Timely and relevant in this era in which governmental accountability and transparency are essential to the consolidation of democracy in Africa and when women are accessing significant leadership positions across the continent, this book considers the substantive and symbolic representation of women's interests by women judges and the wider implications of their presence for changing institutional norms and advancing the rule of law and human rights.

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Imprint: Crc Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Politics
Release date: August 2018
First published: 2016
Editors: Gretchen Bauer • Josephine Dawuni
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 978-0-8153-7055-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal profession > General
Books > Law > English law > Private, property, family > Gender law
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LSN: 0-8153-7055-5
Barcode: 9780815370550

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