Gender matters

[...]the courts are gendered institutions, and that gender is male.3 All of the women in our working group nodded in agreement to Professor Cooper's description, and most of the men were startled by this observation. In the fourth chapter of Gender & Justice, Professor Kenney provides data and context to explain why formally investing in shaping the selection process is an effective-albeit exhausting-technique to increase the number of female judges.\n He recognized that most of the men who graduated from his law school with him in 1977 are in government or corporate practice, but are not partners in law firms; 16.