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Global campaign seeks to achieve gender parity across international tribunals & other monitoring bodies. Media Advisory Women are underrepresented across almost all international and regional tribunals, and monitoring bodies in charge of making important decisions for societies, including issues of human rights, borders, security and

Here’s an interesting fact on regional gender representation in business coming from the Inter-American Dialogue: According to a Latin Business Chronicle analysis, only nine of the top 500 companies in Latin America were run by women in 2012. And although nearly 40 percent of Executives

According to figures released this morning from the Judicial Office of England and Wales, women are still struggling to reach the upper echelons of the English judiciary — but there are faint signs that the glass ceiling could be cracking. Nearly 38% of the country’s

In an article for Legal Business, global chair of the financial industry group at Reed Smith Tamara Box  challenges the notion that women face slippery ladders instead of glass ceiling in the legal industry: For the past ten years or so, a spotlight has been

The nomination of four women judges–Judges Zukisa Tshiqi‚ Leona Theron‚ Dhaya Pillay and Nonkosi Mhlantla–for the recently vacated position by Judge Thembile Skweyiya at the Constitutional Court was a huge step in ensuring that gender imbalances within the judiciary were addressed‚ the Commission for Gender

Fresh data from the European Commission shows there is an increase in new female graduates. But a lack of women in leadership roles is a continuing problem, says Curt Rice, who leads Norway’s committee on gender balance in research. Read the article by Éanna Kelly