Global Mechanisms for Achieving Gender Equality in the Careers of Law and the Judiciary: The State of São Paulo as A Case Study

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analise the professional vertical mobility of women in the sectors of advocacy and the judiciary through a monographic method with a case study in Brazil, state of São Paulo, and research techniques based on bibliographic and documentary analysis and their relations with the achievement of SDG 5 - Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls - in particular, to ensure the full and effective participation of women and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political life, economic and public, by way of proposing the construction of models and processes capable of overcoming gender inequalities in the legal professions in constituted groups. The professional mobility of women will be assessed based on the idea of material equality for the construction of models and processes capable of overcoming gender inequalities in the legal professions. Therefore, the need for equal representation, minimum of 50%, is assumed in commissions, councils and boards, events and courses at OABSP headquarters. And yet, the revision of criteria such as seniority to rise to second level judicial positions in the São Paulo judiciary.

Keywords: ODS 5; Advocacy; Judiciary; Brazil; State of São Paulo.

DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-12-02

Publication date:June 30^th 2021