Discrimination On Gender Discrimination

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The merit appointment does not allow the discrimination on gender principle. Despite the raising recognition of the existing gender inequality within professional world, the gender remains the one of the most influential discriminating factor. The prestige of a particular profession is often found to highly correlate with the proportion of men and women working in these professions.
In post-soviet Russia the portion of women among newly appointed judges has been fluctuating at about 60%, with slight increase in recent years, reaching 67% in 2014 and 2015. While the increase of female judges in 1990s was explained by the rapid decrease of salaries of government workers due to inability of government effectively collect and distribute taxes. …show more content…

In our previous research we found that heads of the court make a tacit contracts with their staff which implies that after a period of hard and low-paid work their efforts will be prized with the promotion to the judicial position. F
Women are dis-proportionally highly presented in our sample. They amount 73% of candidates. emale court secretaries and judge assistants turn out to be not only more strategic, but also more adaptable to the conditions of work. Therefore they might be given preferences. On the other hand, high underrepresentation of men in candidate pool might force the selection committee to give preferences to male candidates in order to achieve gender equality. Thus we can formulate two statements regarding the connection of gender to the decision of qualification boards.
H5.1: In search of diversity, male candidates will have higher chances to receive …show more content…

They control the distribution of the cases and can make the workload of a particular judge bigger or smaller. They decide who receive higher bonuses and non-monetary rewards and who is left without bonuses. Finally, they exercise a great amount of power in the judge selection and appointment process. The participation of the chairman in the judiciary selection takes different forms.
Before proceeding the application the majority of the candidate will hold an informal interview with the chairman. In some occasions, the person wishing to work in a particular court will start to work there as a judge assistant. It grants the court president the opportunity to check the candidate’s abilities in practice. The recommendation the chairman gives to the candidate for the judicial post may heavily influence the decision of the selection

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