One hundred years ago, women played no part in the law’s creation. It was only persistence and repeated challenge to the institutions that eventually overcame the spurious claim that women’s brains made them unsuited to the law or to politics.
The advance of women has been slow. The recognition that confidence in the legal system by the public required a more balanced judiciary has had its impact. It has also been acknowledged that if law is made exclusively by men, it is not surprising that the perspective of the law will be male.
