This encyclopedia contains more than 1,450 key terms and their definitions, supplying readers with the most complete understanding of the subject. Volume one pays attention to issues and interventions in ICT and to the general content of gender and information technology. Volume two pays attention to feminist approaches to technology studies, to ICT and emancipation, to ethnicity and to third world feminist perspectives
Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or, is gender blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a difference, how might this be defined? These are the key questions posed in this collection of essays. The book's pressing topicality is underlined by the fact that male opposition to women's admission to, and progress within, the judicial profession has been largely based on the argument that, because of their gender, women are naturally programmed to show empathy, partiality, and gendered prejudice - in short, essential qualities running directly counter to the need for judicial bjectivity. There remains a more or less pronounced glass ceiling to women's judicial careers.