{"id":1244,"date":"2015-07-31T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T18:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2015-09-17T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T02:00:13","slug":"figures-in-england-and-wales-show-more-than-half-of-young-judges-are-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/figures-in-england-and-wales-show-more-than-half-of-young-judges-are-female\/","title":{"rendered":"Figures in England and Wales show more than half of young judges are female"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.gov.uk\/about-the-judiciary\/who-are-the-judiciary\/diversity\/judicial-diversity-statistics-2015\/\">figures released this morning from the Judicial Office of England and Wales,<\/a> women are still struggling to reach the upper echelons of the English judiciary \u2014 but there are faint signs that the glass ceiling could be cracking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.gov.uk\/about-the-judiciary\/who-are-the-judiciary\/diversity\/judicial-diversity-statistics-2015\/\">Nearly <\/a>38% of the country\u2019s 8,893 judges \u2014 including those sitting on tribunals \u2014 are women. Good news on that front.<\/p>\n<p>However, percentages dropped significantly farther up the judicial pecking order. Some 23% of circuit judges are women, an increase of 2 points over last year.<\/p>\n<p>To read the article in full, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalcheek.com\/2015\/07\/judicial-girl-power-a-long-way-off-but-women-make-gains-on-bench\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to figures released this morning from the Judicial Office of England and Wales, women&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}