Judges and Judiciary
Jul. 2, 2014
Do daughters affect judges' rulings?
The results of a recent study were clear: "Judges with daughters consistently vote in a more feminist fashion on gender issues than judges who have only sons." By Michael Paul Linfield
Michael P. Linfield
Judge (ret.), Director of Litigation
Dordick Law Corporation
Harvard Law School
If you were a plaintiffs attorney filing a gender discrimination case, what type of judge would you most like to appear before? A female judge? A Democratic judge? New research shows that you should pick a judge who has at least one daughter.
The authors of the new study, published last month in the American Journal of Political Science, analyzed almost 1,000 gender-related cases decided by 224 judges sitting on the federal Cour...
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