WOMEN LEADERS IN PARLIAMENT
so by the end of that decade, there were more female than male law graduates. Yet by 2000, the cream had not risen. Yes, we were seeing more and more women judges on the Bench; but at Court of Appeal level – very few. The cream just was not rising as expected.
I feel very proud now, though, to recall that although it was not until 2011, the full Court of Appeal of the OECS was comprised of women, sitting in Antigua. Today, the OECS Chief Justice is a woman who was appointed a few months ago. I know one other Caribbean jurisdiction that
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has had a female Chief Justice. It is a combination of many factors, therefore, that have shown that in order for women to achieve true equality, they have to be part of the decision-making process at all levels, including of course, the highest institution in the land.
Maintaining the numbers I want to warn about complacency. Drawing again on the experiences of the Caribbean, by the late 1980s there were more female graduates than males in the faculty of Law, but this was not the only one. A new phenomenon had been taking place
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