Gender and the Judiciary in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

From Obscurity to Parity?
Redaktion: Bauer, Gretchen; Dawuni, Josephine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Renowed country experts on African politics address the important issue of the increasing number and role of women judges and justices, as judiciaries evolve across the continent that spans a range of colonial experiences, postcolonial trajectories and legal systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317516484
• Artikelnr.: 44170152

Autorenporträt

Gretchen Bauer is professor of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware, USA. Her current research focuses on women's political leadership in sub-Saharan Africa. She is the co-editor with Manon Tremblay of Women in Executive Power: A Global Overview (2011) and with Hannah Britton of Women in African Parliaments (2006). Josephine Dawuni is an assistant professor of political science at Howard University. Her current research focuses on women and the judiciary in sub-Saharan Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Judge Mabel Agyemang 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