from obscurity to parity?
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bauer, Gretchen > (ed.)
- Creator
- Dawuni, Josephine > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- AFR 53 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- rechters, rechterlijke instanties, vrouwen in mannenberoepen, Afrika, statistiek, bundel
- Description
- This book addresses the issue of the increasing numbers and varied roles of women judges and justices, as judiciaries evolve across the continent. Scholars of law, gender politics and African politics provide overviews of recent developments in gender and the judiciary in nine African countries that represent north, east, southern and west Africa as well as a range of colonial experiences, postcolonial trajectories and legal systems, including mixes of common, civil, customary, or sharia law. Table of contents: 1. Gender and the judiciary in Africa: an introduction / Josephine Dawuni: 2. Egypt: The lingering battle for female judgeship / Mahmoud Hamad: 3. Botswana: delayed indigenization and feminization of the judiciary / Gretchen Bauer and Rachel Ellett: 4. South Africa: a transformative constitution and a representative judiciary / Cathi Albertyn and Elsje Bonthuys: 5. Nigeria: women judges enhancing the judiciary / Hauwa Ibrahim: 6. Tunisia: a new constitution and more women judges / Salsabil Klibi: 7. Tanzania: women judges as agents of judicial education / Mi Yung Yoon 8. Benin: women judges promoting women’s rights / Alice Kang: 9. Ghana: the paradox of judicial stagnation / Josephine Dawuni: 10. Rwanda: balancing gender quotas and an independent judiciary / Jean-Marie Kamatali: 11. Gender and the judiciary in Africa: conclusion / Gretchen Bauer.