An interesting interview with the Chief Justice of Canada, Beverley McLachlin. She speaks about the importance of women on the bench.

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2011/3315551.htm

Cheers,
Louise

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Australian Research Council Future Fellow
School of Social Sciences and International Studies
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Woman may become new Chief Justice of South African Constitutional Court.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/08/07/moseneke-left-out-in-the-cold-again

In sri lanka presently we have first women chief justice. concerning the gender equalities sri lanka is entertaining much opportunities than developed countries. we have equal salaries for men and women. example Germany pay bit highter salaries for men than women.

Dulani Perera

See report on women and the judiciary in the U.S.

http://www.albany.edu/womeningov/judgeship_report_partII.pdf

Looks like my editorial made it in, and generated some interesting comments. I was astonished to learn I am on the payroll for George Soros!

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110629/OPINION04/106290339/1038/Why-women-seen-lacking-

http://dmjuice.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110629/OPINION04/106290339/1035/OPINION

Sent to DMR today.

For Grassley, Women Never Good Enough
When men move quickly up the ladder we admire them as high fliers but women always need to be twice as good. At Senate Judiciary hearings recently, Grassley questioned the credentials and experience of four women President Obama nominated to the federal courts. Our judiciary is struggling with its caseload as positions go unfilled waiting for Senate confirmation. Women seem to take longer than men to get through the process, particularly when the President and the majority of the Senate are from different parties. Iowans will remember that our own Bonnie Campbell never received a confirmation vote to serve on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. The only woman to ever serve on that court out of 61 judges, Judge Diana Murphy, was also dismissed by some, including the ABA, as less qualified because she came to legal practice later in life and had fewer years of legal service. She has served with distinction. What is really going on is that Grassley does not like the politics of these women, whom he suspects of being too liberal for his taste. But it more acceptable to question their credentials, and sadly, women’s credentials just never seem to be good enough.

Sally J. Kenney, a native Iowan, is a professor of political science at Tulane University and the Newcomb College Endowed Chair. She is an expert on judicial selection and finishing a book on Gender and Judging.

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/06/grassley-questions-qualifications-of-four-judicial-nominees-.html