Women in the Judiciary -- Reaction

Reserve Reading

The most surprising thing about this article was how recent the advancements in the judicial system were. Sandra Day O'Connor was only appointed in 1981 as the first female member of the Supreme Court. Ruth Ginsburg after her was only the second, and the article didn't cover any women since then so I'm assuming there haven't been any. It's encouraging that the levels of women in law school is even to the number of men. This means that the eligibility pool is developing, even though in class we've discussed how the pipeline theory doesn't actually work that well.

I was very interested, and actually relieved, to find that women don't judge particularly differently than men. As the article states, it does lend a certain amount of viability to the judiciary system. it also makes women seem less opinionated and feminist-y. It would be interesting to see whether the court system as a whole has changed since the induction of women into it. The article seemed to assess how women voted differently from men, while the women interviewed said they were affecting how the men voted. Isn't it possible that rather than voting against the male judges, female judges are actually changing how the men vote?