ABSTRACT Women have made considerable progress in terms of their entrance into the legal profession, such that they are advancing towards parity with men on the High Court benches in Nigeria. This study is a product of qualitative empirical data gathered from interviews with judges and information gleaned from government records and personal files of judges in the Archives of the judiciaries in Mid-Western Nigeria. It identifies reasons for the increase in the number of women on the High Court Bench in the area. Women entering the legal professions in Nigeria from the 1930s opted for a career in government legal service and the Magistracy with less financial remuneration but regular work hours, than in private legal practice that provides higher remunerations and irregular work hours. Findings reveal that the number of women judges increased when it became fairly established to tunnel 90% of appointments to the High Court from these channels. The preliminary conclusion therefore, is that, although women lawyers have made considerable headway as High Court judges, the increase in their numbers on the High Court bench was not as a result of any organised policy to increase the number of women judges in Nigeria.

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尼日利亚司法机构中的妇女：进展还是有组织的？

摘要妇女在进入法律职业方面已经取得了相当大的进步，因此她们正在朝着尼日利亚高等法院法官席上与男子平等的方向前进。这项研究是从定性的经验数据中收集的，这些定性的经验数据是从对法官的采访中收集的，以及从政府记录和尼日利亚中西部司法机构档案中的法官个人档案中收集的信息。它确定了该地区高等法院长凳上妇女人数增加的原因。从1930年代开始在尼日利亚从事法律职业的妇女选择了政府法律服务和地方行政管理部门的职业，其财政报酬较低，但固定工作时间要比提供更高报酬和非正规工作时间的私人法律业务更大。调查结果表明，当法官通过这些渠道将90％的任命传给高等法院时，女法官的人数有所增加。因此，初步结论是，尽管女律师在高等法院法官中取得了长足的进步，但高等法院法官人数的增加并不是由于任何有组织的政策来增加尼日利亚女法官的人数。