{"id":770,"date":"2009-01-08T07:34:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T07:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2009-01-08T07:34:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T07:34:04","slug":"judges-image-problem-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Judges &#8211; image problem for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales says potential women candidates are put off becoming judges because the profession was seen as old-fashioned and pompous. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-606\" style=\"width:111px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/igor_judge-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"igor_judge\" width=\"111\" height=\"111\" \/>\r\n\t<div>igor_judge<\/div>\r\n<\/div>High Court judges are attracted by the prestige and challenge of the job and an acknowledgement of their quality as a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Research has found that many barristers were put off by the workload, a fall in salary \u2013 as much as five fold &#8211; and working far from home for long periods.<\/p>\n<p>News report <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/law\/article5469789.ece\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales says potential women candidates are put off becoming judges because the profession was seen as old-fashioned and pompous. igor_judge High Court judges are attracted by the prestige and challenge of the job and an acknowledgement of their quality as a lawyer. Research has found that many barristers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}