Women in the judicial system
the impact of female judges on combating gender injustice
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feminism, legal system, female judges, legal reformAbstract
This paper mainly discusses the role of female judges in pushing forward gender justice through their unique living experience and their knowledge of gender discrimination. This paper first explains how gender discrimination discourage women from entering legal professions and from influencing the decision-making process in the judicial system. Using cases from the supreme court, this paper then discusses why female judges consider gender justice an important agenda and how they change the current legal framework. This paper then moves on to consider the question of intersectionality, unraveling the role of race in women’s liberation and how it is reflected in the effort of female legal professionals. This paper concludes that while not all female judges share the same opinion on gender justice, their presence in the legal system constitutes a pivotal victory of feminist movements.
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