The Sociology of Law
Online ISSN : 2424-1423
Print ISSN : 0437-6161
ISSN-L : 0437-6161
Mini-Symposium II: Conditions for the Substantiation of Rights
Gender Diversity in Judiciary and Realizing Gender Rights
Keiko Sawa
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2016 Volume 2016 Issue 82 Pages 140-153

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In order to examine what the feminization of the judiciary as a condition of realizing gender rights will be, this paper tries to study on whether and how the increase of women judges and gender equality of the judiciary is associated with the realization of gender rights, referring to those studies overseas. On one hand, it is difficult to assure the reduction of gender bias in the judiciary as the women judges increase, because, in some cases, the environmental factors such as the organizational norms of judges may cause a gender bias. On the other hand, if the dynamic situation in which to change the gendered way of being of the organization should take place, as the women judges increase, it can be said that it may lead to the reduction of gender bias through environmental factors.
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2016 The Japanese Association of Sociology of Law
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