By Kaleigh A. Ruiz.
Existing work on gender and the judiciary traditionally finds that women and men on the court decide cases similarly. However, given what we know about women in other American institutions, it’s possible that gender differences exist in the judicial process that culminates in these comparable opinions. This Article tests that proposition, analyzing a novel dataset of nearly 9,000 cases and finding that women judges author majority opinions that are longer and include more citations to various authorities as compared to those authored by peer men. Full Article.