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Gender and judging<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Australian society and courts have undergone significant changes; one of the most visible is changing roles for women. Simply counting women and men is insufficient. Gender is multifaceted, multidimensional, contextually specific and performed as part of multiple identities. This phase of the project is creating new knowledge about gender and work and is developing an original, empirically based understanding gender and judging.<\/p>\n

This research confronts questions about whether, and under which conditions, men and women approach their work as judges differently, addressing meanings of impartiality and claims of reduced or increased legitimacy and bias raised by the entry of women into a previously all-male judiciary.<\/p>\n

The most striking difference between women and men in the Australian judiciary is with household and domestic obligations, where women judicial officers spend much more time on such work and the nature of the work they do is different. Differences in the attitudes of men and women towards their work as judges or magistrates \u2014 women reporting slightly greater stress, lesser satisfaction with the job overall \u2014 may relate less directly to their experience of the work alone, or to themselves as women, but to the significantly different personal and social context in which they undertake their judicial work.<\/p>\n

Investigating gender and judging draws on all the data gathered by the JRP and MRP:<\/p>\n