Judicial Service Commissions and the appointment of women to higher courts in Nigeria and Zambia

Dawuni, Josephine Jarpa; Masengu, Tabeth

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“…Similarly, improvements in women's career advancement in Africa have been slow [11]. Studies in Kenya [15], Namibia [16], as well as Nigeria and Zambia [17,18], reveal that women struggle to develop themselves and progress within the workplace. In South Africa, women face several challenges in their careers [4,5,19,20] resulting in their being under-represented in several fields [21][22][23] and in managerial positions [9,24].…”

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Examining the Impact of Gender Discriminatory Practices on Women’s Development and Progression at Work

Ketchiwou

Dzansi

2023

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Although there has been a worldwide cry for gender equity within organizations, gender discriminatory practices continue to be a challenge. Many women still suffer from gender discrimination and remain at the bottom of organizational structures despite their efforts to ascend. This paper seeks to examine the link between gender discriminatory practices and women’s skill development and progression within the workplace. The study espoused a quantitative approach. A questionnaire survey was self-administered online to 412 women through a convenient non-probability sampling method. Descriptive tendencies, test normality, validity, reliability, and regression analysis were performed using the statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS), AMOS 27. The results reveal that women’s skill development is impacted by workplace gender discriminatory practices, and the career progression of women is linked to their skill development. Yet it rejects the claim that workplace gender discriminatory practices impact women’s career progression. While having a gender-friendly work environment is applaudable, developing women’s skills and promoting their advancement at work will require more effort from companies. Organizations need to be deliberate about the skills development and career progression of women and institutionalize initiatives that directly encourage women to engage in developmental activities as well as initiatives geared towards promoting women’s career advancement.

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Examining the Impact of Gender Discriminatory Practices on Women’s Development and Progression at Work

Ketchiwou

Dzansi

2023

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“…8 Knowledge of women's access to the judiciary is largely based on the Global North (see, e.g., Boigeol 1993;Kenney 2013a;Rackley 2013), especially U.S. courts (Cook 1982(Cook , 1984bGoelzhauser 2011;Resnik 1991). Researchers also tend to focus on more prestigious courts, be it women's entry to international courts (Dawuni 2019;Dawuni and Kuenyehia 2018;Grossman 2016) or comparative studies explaining global and regional variations in the number of women in countries' highest courts (Arana Araya, Hughes, and Pérez-Liñán 2021;Arrington et al 2021;Dawuni and Kang 2015;Dawuni and Masengu 2019;Escobar-Lemmon et al 2021;Kang et al 2020;Thames and Williams 2013;Valdini and Shortell 2016). Fewer studies include lower courts when explaining women's access to judiciaries beyond the Global North, with some notable exceptions (Bauer and Dawuni 2016;Bonthuys 2015;Kamau 2013;Kenney 2018;Sonnevold and Lindbekk 2017).…”

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Women's Judicial Representation in Haiti: Unintended Gains of State-Building Efforts

Tøraasen

2022

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Although women's representation in Haiti is generally very low, the number of women judges has increased since the demise of authoritarianism and violent conflict in the 1990s. This case study explores why. I find that “gender-neutral” judicial reforms aimed at strengthening the judiciary have done more for women's judicial representation than explicitly gender-targeted policies, which still lack implementation. Donor-supported reforms have introduced more merit-based and transparent appointment procedures for magistrates (judges and public prosecutors) based on competitive examinations. This has helped women circumvent the largely male power networks that previously excluded them from the judiciary. The judiciary remains understudied in the scholarship on women's access to decision-making in fragile and conflict-affected societies; this article contributes to this emerging literature.

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“…The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is responsible for appointing judges in Zambia. The JSC has proved to be an ally for women, as it has actively engaged in the promotion of women to the bench in Zambia, unlike in some other coun tries, where JSCs are stumbling blocks to women's appointment to the bench (Dawuni & Masengu, 2019). The JSC sends out communications about vacan cies to the LAZ, the internal judiciary mailing system, and government and parastatal companies (Masengu, 2017a).…”

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Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa

Dawuni¹

2021

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Judges play critical roles as custodians of law and justice. The judicial oath places a duty on judges to apply the law equally, and without fear or favor. The generally held view on gender and judging, however, indicate that the law may not always be applied fairly in matters relating to women and other minorities. This book comes at a time when the world is reawakening to discussions on the rights of women, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. The chapters provide theoretical and practical analyses and entry points for expanding our understanding of how judges apply the law and the potential for judicial interpretation to either promote women's rights or diminish them. This book is a must-read for judicial officers, gender advocates, experts interested in judicial policy, judicial training, and judicial institutional development. It touches on issues at the intersection of gender, law, and development across Africa."Justice Georgina Theodora Wood (Rtd.) (SOG, LLD (honoris causa), Former Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana "A rich, timely, thoughtful, lively and diverse compendium of papers examining the multiplicity of questions at the core of constitutional rights and freedoms across the African continent today. The book excellently captures the main issues raised at the conference in Arusha which illuminated the gaps in law and practice towards full and meaningful achievement of women's rights. It highlights the slow but steady advances being made in the gender awareness of judges in Africa, while calling to action the need for more gender-sensitive training for judicial officers." Justice Albie Sachs (Rtd.), Constitutional Court of South AfricaWomen judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gender and judging in African judiciaries.Employing different theoretical approaches, the book investigates how women have fared within domestic African judiciaries as both actors and litigants. It explores how women negotiate multiple hierarchies to access the judiciary, and how gender-related issues are handled in courts. The chapters in the book provide policy, theoretical and practical prescriptions to the challenges identified, and offer recommendations for the future directions of gender and judging in the post-COVID-19 era, including the role of technology, artificial intelligence, social media, and institutional transformations that can help promote women's rights.Bringing together specific cases from Kenya,

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Judicial Service Commissions and the appointment of women to higher courts in Nigeria and Zambia

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Examining the Impact of Gender Discriminatory Practices on Women’s Development and Progression at Work

Examining the Impact of Gender Discriminatory Practices on Women’s Development and Progression at Work

Women's Judicial Representation in Haiti: Unintended Gains of State-Building Efforts

Gender, Judging and the Courts in Africa

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