In Portugal, totaling 1970 magistrates, 1,040 are female. In the
first instance, 973 are women against 634 men. “Tribunais de Relação” in 05
courts, are only 66 “desembargadoras” against 231 male. STJ there a “conselheira
judge and 65 judges of appeal. By the year 1974, the judiciary was forbidden
for females.
In the United States, the judge Sandra Day O'Connor was the
first woman to join the Supreme Court in 1981, but resigned in 2006; the second
woman to hold such an important office in American Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
was in 1993, and currently she is 78 years old. Sonia Sotomayor was the third
judge and took office in August/2009. Elena Kagan, former dean of Harvard Law
School, along with the previous two, form the group of three women on the
Supreme Court, among the 112 members who passed by.
The Center for Women in Government and Civil Society, the State
University of New York at Albany, EE.UU, reports that "women represent
only 22% of the body of federal judges and 26% of all positions statewide"
. However, they achieve the percentage of 48% of law school graduates.
In Brazil, the CNJ published Census Magistrates, reporting that
most of the Brazilian judiciary is made up of men; 64% are male, reaching a
percentage of 82% in the higher courts.
The survey conducted by the Department of Judicial Research, in
the period from 4/11 to 20/11/2013, notes that most are married or in a stable
relationship, 80%; have children, 76%; age of judges and justices is located on
average 45 years, decreasing to 42, the Federal Court; Also it was reported
that the career of judges starts at 31.6 years, while the magistrates begin at
30.7 years.
In 84.5% of cases, the judges declare to be white; 14% mixed
race, 1.4 black and 0.1 indians; only 91
disabled, out of 17 thousand professionals.
On average the journey of judges is 9.18 minutes; surrogate
judges, early career, has a workload of 9.37 minutes; 14% of judges are also
teachers, of which 65% have graduate degrees.
