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The government is setting out plans to increase the number of women judges by encouraging flexible working.
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Businesswomen make up a growing percentage of the global workforce but are still under-represented in the boardroom. With just 117 women among the 1,130 directors of the FTSE 100 companies, according to a recent survey by Cranfield University, it would need almost a fourfold increase in female representation to achieve gender equality.
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President Bush will again nominate 20 persons for federal judgeships, even though Democrats previously used tactics such as filibusters to prevent them from being confirmed, the White House announced Thursday.
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. renewed his call for a pay raise for federal judges and pledged new cooperation with the other branches of government in his year-end report on the federal judiciary.
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A federal judge has ordered the Federal Election Commission to enact tougher restrictions on how millions of dollars are spent on campaigns, saying that its rules have
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The French cabinet approves a proposal to encourage parties to promote more women into politics.
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For more than a decade, academics and technology executives have been frowning at the widening gender gap in computer science. Everyone has a theory, but no one has managed to attract many more women.
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Putting time limits on frontbenchers' speeches is among plans to boost backbench MPs.
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Her campaign manager says as the nominee she could win over many GOP women.
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President Bushâs decisive re-election victory this week has given him the opportunity to nominate more federal judges who share his conservative views.
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The U.S. Tennis Association (USTA)   will increase the number of female and minority chair umpires   at its tournaments in an agreement with the New York attorney   general's office announced on Thursday.
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Officials at the Wimbledon tennis championships announced Thursday that they will pay equal prize money to women for the first time this year.
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appeared poised Monday to alter the system used for sentencing 64,000 federal criminal defendants a year, but justices clashed over whether changes would create greater inequity.    Judges, not juries, consider factors that can add years to defendants' prison sentences, under the government's 17-year-old system which has been challenged as unconstitutional...
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Rules on gifts for judges are being overhauled for the first time in 15 years, with a commission looking at ways to cut down on the trinkets, expense-paid trips and other freebies given to members of the bench.
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Tennis chiefs have unveiled plans to introduce criminal background checks on anyone seeking access to player areas at tournaments in a bid to enhance safety at women's events.
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Many advanced countries face collapsing populations. Making it easier for women to work may be the best way to increase birthrates.
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MOSCOW, Nov 5 (IPS) - Several women leaders are hoping for a higher  representation in parliament after the Dec. 2 elections than the  present 10 percent.