Gender equity in deanship of the Central and Eastern European law schools

Kużelewska, Elżbieta (author), Žuber, Bruna (author)

The paper aims to analyze the scope of female leadership (deanship) at public and non-public law faculties in selected countries from the region of Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro. The paper will explore the engagement of women in the administration of law schools operating within public (and non-public) schools (universities) across the region in the latest years. The paper aims to show the number of female deanships at law faculties in the analyzed states. This analysis will be based on statistical data obtained from the available public sources (including national databases as well as the European Union resources) providing the number of female deans and vice-deans appointed or elected by the academia at all higher education institutions within the country. The initial hypothesis states that gender inequality has been present in the deanship of analyzed law schools and reflects general trends in gender equality in Europe. Comprehensive analysis of the central and eastern European states will allow formulating the key conclusions and answering the following research questions concerning the differences in the numbers of women on the key positions within the law faculties in terms of public versus non-public institutions and in the light of the general gender equality trends in the continent. The research methods used for the analysis include a dogmatic method, statistical method as well as comparative method.

• Language: English
• Keywords: female deanship, gender equality, law faculty, female deans, Central-Eastern Europe
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PF - Faculty of Law
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 2009–2031
• Numbering: Vol. 37, iss. 6
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163830
• UDC: 342
• ISSN on article: 1572-8722
• DOI: 10.1007/s11196-023-10095-y
• COBISS.SI-ID: 189598723
• Publication date in RUL: 11.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal for the semiotics of law = Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
• Shortened title: Int. j. semiot. law
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• ISSN: 1572-8722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 513166617

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