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Women in the Judiciary

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This chapter starts to focus primarily on women judges and their position in, and relation with, the judiciary. The first part of the chapter explores women’s aspirations for being judicial officeholders, how they get into the judiciary, and (once they are in) their training, career paths and journey to the positions of power in court. The second part of the chapter examines women’s roles and positions in court. More specifically, it explores how women judges, as a gender group in court, are presented in official discourses and their own qualitative experiences. It then presents the gendered problems of women judges and their job satisfaction. The chapter offers a detailed and nuanced account of women’s lives in court and uncovers the myth of gender equality within the Chinese judiciary.

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Shen, A. (2017). Women in the Judiciary. In: Women Judges in Contemporary China. Palgrave Advances in Criminology and Criminal Justice in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57840-8_4

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