Female Judges Matter: Gender and Collegial Decisionmaking in the Federal Appellate Courts, by Jennifer L. Peresie.

114 Yale L.J. 1759 (2005)

     This article investigates whether the presence of female judges on Federal Appellate panels had an effect on the outcome of Title VII sexual harassment and sex discrimination cases. The results of the author's study show that, although plaintiffs still lost in the majority of case in the data set, "they were significantly more likely to win when a female judge was on the bench." This gender disparity was controlled for other factors such as ideology. The author concludes that "Judges' gender matters both to what the bench looks like and to what it decides."