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Gender and Judging: Voices: do women add another voice to Voice to judicial decision making or do women judge differently? Choices: do women have a rational choice in opting for a career in the judiciary: - Entrance - Promotion

The study deals with several topics on Arabic women in the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf States. These topics can be summed up in: Women’s Substantive Representation in Arab Parliaments: Te Gender and Elections in the Middle East Project; Women’s Equality; Public Sexual Violence; Gender Politics; Women’s Political Representation and Authoritarianism in the Arab World; and the Politics of the Truth and Dignity Commission in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia: Gender Justice as a threat to Democratic transition.

The report contains many of the topics about the women in MENA region in many field ( economic, policy, social ...) for exemple : Gender equality in the MENA , Gouvernement tools for gender equality , Monitoring and oversight, policy co-ordination, measurement and- disaggregated data , participation in representation bodies and acces to justice and her representation in the judiciary.

This paper examines patterns and trends in women’s legal status – particularly in the family laws – and their participation in the judiciary in Arab countries and Iran, in order to assess gender justice. (For comparative purposes, information also is included on Israel, Turkey and Malaysia.) It finds a mixed picture. In some countries – such as Tunisia, Turkey and more recently, Morocco – legal reforms have taken place to enhance women’s rights in the family and to push for more gender equality in the society; in other countries, discriminatory family laws remain on the books and women are second-class citizens in the family and society. Women’s participation as lawyers and judges is similarly mixed across the region. Some countries report respectable percentages of women judges (e.g., Algeria and Tunisia), while in other countries women are banned from the profession of judge (e.g., the Islamic Republic of Iran, Saudi Arabia), ostensibly for reasons of religious proscriptions but probably also reflecting biases against women in leadership and decision-making positions. The full paper presents available information and data on women’s status in the law and women’s status in the judiciary by country, listed alphabetically.

This report looks at women as a growing part of the correctional workforce, examining issues affecting women and their career success. Interviews with correctional experts provide a vast amount of information as the Institute examines the demographic data, need for specialized training and explores ways to support women professionals working within prisons, jails, and other types of detention facilities, community corrections, and the corrections field in general.