Reports
Annual Reports:
Local Gender Bias & Gender Fairness Committees:
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State & Local Committees:
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NYS Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts – Gender Survey 2020
"Taken as a whole [responses to a 2001 questionnaire] suggest that to those who spend their professional lives in New York's courts, change is visible everywhere but so is the persistence of troubling attitudes and harmful practices."
"This report sounds a consistent theme: impressive progress alongside persisting problems. . . Women in courthouses and the court system still find obstacles to the pursuit of their legal claims, careers and profession that men rarely confront."
Five Year Report of the New York State Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts (1991)
Report of the Committee to Implement Recommendations of the Task Force on Women in the Courts:
The Report of the New York Task Force on Women in the Courts (1986)
This piece was originally published in the Fordham Law Journal as Report of the New York Task Force on Women in the Courts, 15 Fordham Urb. L.J. 11 (1986). A PDF of this report and other related articles may be found on the Fordham Urban Law Journal.
"Gender bias against women litigants, attorneys and court employees is a pervasive problem with grave consequences. Women are often denied equal justice, equal treatment and equal opportunity."
Executive Summary of the Report of the New York Task Force on Women in the Courts (1986)
Pamphlets
Immigration and Domestic Violence: A Short Guide for New York State Judges (April 2009)
On the Bench: Judicial Responses to Gender Bias (March 1999)
Fair Speech: Gender Neutral Language in the Courts (March 2017)
Books
Lawyer's Manual on Human Trafficking: Pursuing Justice for Victims, Edited by Jill Laurie Goodman and Dorchen A. Leidholdt (2013)
Lawyer's Manual on Domestic Violence: Representing the Victim, Edited by Mary Rothwell Davis, Dorchen A. Leidholdt, and Charlotte A. Watson (6th Edition - 2015)
Newsletters
Equal Justice - Newsletter of the NYS Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts
Policies
Sexual Harassment Policy & Procedure
Unified Court System: Domestic Violence Policy
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