This edition of Women and Elective Office offers the latest research on women as candidates
and officeholders. It provides a comprehensive look at at the history and status of women in …

A critical examination of the weaknesses inherent in international gender policy 2018
Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association Gender equality has …

Objectives Using a multistage gender‐focused analysis of candidates for trial court
judgeships, we seek answers to these leading questions:(1) Are women as strategic as men …

Globally, the available evidence suggests that progress on women's leadership has been
uneven, both in terms of region and domain. For example, while there have been notable …

This research demonstrates the historical progression of the women's rights in society, and
how women started having their voice heard by going out to the streets, parading and …

African law and justice systems in the early 21st century are the result of over a thousand
years of religious and cultural influences and political change on the continent. As …

Legal scholars, lawyers, judges and other legal practitioners theorize that the role of a judge
is to apply abstract rules to concrete facts and that judges should resist any emotional …

Representation of women in domestic and international courts is essential to the legitimacy
of those institutions. Over the last decade low representation of women judges has begun to …