This is the first in a series of such courts, which will be headed by two women judges.
They needn't ever speak of it, simply because their whiteness and gender insulates them from the presumption of partiality and bias that is regularly attached to women judges and judges of color when it comes to matters of race and gender.
Amnesty gives a list of recommendations for Afghanistan - from training more women as judges and lawyers, to extending peacekeeping patrols outside Kabul.
I'm competing in this category, which judges women based on their figure, body tone and poise.
Mr Sanderson points out that the most popular Olympic events in America are women's figure-skating and gymnastics, both of which involve scantily-clad young women performing for judges.
These percentages are echoed in our state court systems where 32 percent of State Supreme Court Justices, 32% of State Appellate Court Justices, and between 25 and 31 percent of State Trial Court Judges are women.
During his term, 34% of all Massachusetts judges were already women.
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She says without more gender sensitivity among police and judges, no law for women will be enforced.
The assembly has also used this power to require more female candidates and today over a third of the judges on the court are women.
The legal fraternity in the state capital Calcutta think appointing female judges and staff will help women who have been raped or molested to come forward.
When women started to petition the IOC in the 1960s to compete in the Olympics, they had to present themselves to a panel of judges to prove they were women.
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Ultimately, whether, holding other things constant, women of color make "better" judges than white men is an empirical question that we are unable to answer definitively any time soon, given the small numbers of minority judges.
The court, or Constitutional Council as it is formally known, reached its decision through a panel of eight judges, six men and two women.
Lord Judge was also asked about a range of other issues affecting the judiciary including a lack of women and people from ethnic minorities being appointed as judges.
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They believe Clinton's judges are a salient issue with Republican women concerned about crime and values, and the gas-tax repeal is aimed at mostly male and commuting independents across the U.S. "We have a social issue teed up, a values issue rolled out, and now we're hitting on economics, " says campaign manager Scott Reed.
Some judges are calling for greater awareness about crimes against women.
Male judges are often not "sensitive towards crimes against women and are biased towards the male gender when hearing a woman's plea", said senior advocate Bharati Mutsuddi.
Here in the United States, 30% of federal trial court judges, 31 percent of federal appellate court justices are women.
Turkish judges examining evidence about the murders of two County Down women have heard from a witness who claims to have seen the two suspects near the scene of the killings.
Women are graduating from law schools in record numbers and make outstanding lawyers and judges.
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When pregnant women who have been convicted of minor crimes are known to be taking drugs, judges will sometimes time their sentences so they are certain to give birth in prison.
Professor Lola Young, chairman of the judges, called British novels "piddling" and "parochial" compared with American women's fiction.
On the other hand, hundreds of millions of women and girls throughout the Islamic world are daily terrorized by everyone from their families to their judges.
But logic requires judges to follow a tortured path of first determining that female circumcision is medically unnecessary and deprives women of future sexual pleasure, while male circumcision has some medical justifications and does not unduly deprive men of sexual pleasure.
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