UNDP's Women in the Judiciary Dashboard was launched on 12 March 2026 during a UNDP side event at the 70th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

The dashboard is a first-of-its-kind global platform that makes women’s representation in courts visible and actionable.

The picture it reveals is striking.  

Women's representation in the judiciary ranges from over 80 percent in the highest-performing country to zero percent in others.  

Even where numbers are relatively strong, women remain consistently underrepresented in higher level courts.  

Where the gap is widest, data is often weakest, leaving inequality invisible and unaddressed. Investing in better data is not a technical exercise; it is how we make injustice impossible to ignore.

On behalf of the United Nations Development Programme, we would like to thank the co-organizers of the launch event, UN Women, the International Association of Women Judges, and the GQUAL Campaign, and our co-sponsoring Missions of Germany, the Netherlands, Kiribati, and Qatar for their steadfast commitment to advancing gender justice.