House approves bill to reorganize magistrate appointments and raise judicial pay The House passed House File 2706 to shift magistrate appointments from counties to judicial election districts, allow the Supreme Court to allocate magistrates by workload, create senior magistrates and raise judicial salaries; an amendment gave current magistrates a temporary right of first refusal.

Iowa's House just passed a groundbreaking bill that transforms magistrate appointments and boosts judicial salaries, paving the way for a more efficient justice system.

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We finalised our #WorldCafé sessions with #WomenAcademics from @unioflimerick.bsky.social, @ucc.ie, @rcsi.bsky.social. Warm thank you to all the women who invested time and energy to share insightful lived experiences and knowledge on #WorkloadAllocation, #GenderInequities, barriers and solutions.

On the persistence of gender inequality: the case of informal workload allocation in a research-intensive university in the UK This paper extends Martin’s framework of ‘practicing gender’ by showing how practices of informal workload allocation often contribute to reproducing the gender order, even in an organisation that ...

Gender inequities in workload allocation may be reproduced informally even in higher education institutions with formal WAMs or gender equity policies in place. Important article by Viviana Meschitti.
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