B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Breaking the Legal Glass Ceiling in ‘Gender Equal’ Finland
Authors: Alaattinoğlu, Daniela
Editors: Alaattinoğlu, Daniela; Nousiainen, Kevät; Verdú Sanmartin; Amalia
Publication year: 2026
Book title : The Neutral Law? Essays in Honour of Johanna Niemi
First page : 61
Last page: 72
ISBN: 978-951-51-8340-8
eISBN: 978-951-51-8339-2
Publication's open availability at the time of reporting: Open Access
Publication channel's open availability : Open Access publication channel
Web address : http://hdl.handle.net/10138/627846
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/509000404
Self-archived copy's licence: CC BY NC
Self-archived copy's version: Publisher`s PDF
Who are the senior producers of legal knowledge and senior legal practitioners in Finland? Inspired by recent international scholarship on the people behind the law and glass ceilings in academia and the legal profession, this chapter investigates the gender balances in three high-level sites of legal knowledge production and practice: i) the Finnish Supreme Courts, ii) the professors working at Finnish law schools, and iii) the partners of major law firms in Finland. In the Finnish context, the text continues the discussion initiated by Johanna Niemi and Daniela Alaattinoğlu on the gendered legacy of Finnish law and its implications for today’s Finnish legal scholarship and education, posing the question of why discussions on gender and representation—while women increasingly enter legal professions—are still underdeveloped and contested in a country which claims to already be ‘gender equal’.
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