Editing Judge (section)

===Gender effects===
In many [[Civil law (legal system)|civil law]] countries in Europe the majority of judges are women: in 6 countries ([[Slovenia]], [[Serbia]], [[Latvia]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Greece]] and [[Hungary]]) women make more that 70% of judges of the first instance. In contrast, in [[common law]] countries ([[UK]], [[Ireland]], [[Malta]] and the United States) the situation is reverse: over 70% of judges of the first instance are men.<ref name="Bench 2020">Clearing the Bench: Using Mandatory Retirement to Promote Gender Parity in the U.S. and the EU Judiciaries. 2020. C.C. Goodma</ref>

On the other hand, women are underrepresented in the Supreme Courts in the USA and all EU countries, except for Romania (in Romanian [[High Court of Cassation and Justice]] over 80% of judges are women).<ref name="Bench 2020"/>