El techo de cristal en la judicatura española: hipótesis explicativas a partir de las vivencias de las magistradas

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This work seeks to contribute to explaining the gender imbalance in the Spanish judiciary. Although women make up 54% of the members of the judicial career, their presence is concentrated in single-person bodies and is scarce at the top of the judiciary. The work is articulated based on the judges' own explanations about this imbalance, extracted from research based on biographical interviews with 20 judges, with a minimum of 20 years of experience as professional judges. The explanations are treated as explanatory hypotheses that are contrasted with other data published by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ). The explanations examined are three: the recent incorporation of women into the judicial career; the self-exclusion of women from freely appointed positions by the CGPJ and government positions; the exclusion of women from discretionary positions through selective mechanisms. The review of statistics and the analysis of the professional trajectories of female judges allows us to rule out the argument that the late access of women to the judicial career explains their limited presence in the high judiciary and discretionary positions. It seems more promising, however, to delve deeper into the hypotheses based on self-exclusion and the existence of gender biases in selection processes, as well as their relationship ​
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