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