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Siri Thinks More Women Should Be Judges

In courts of emoji law, all judges are apparently women.

When it comes to women’s representation in the judiciary, we’ve still got a long way to go. According to the National Women’s Law Center, as of last fall, women made up 36 percent of all federal district court judges, 36 percent of all federal appellate judges, and 33 percent of all U.S. Supreme Court justices. Considering the fact that for the first time ever, women now make up a majority of all law students, women are underrepresented in our most powerful courts.

This is hardly fair, and even the artificial intelligence and machine learning tools that are used in Apple’s predictive text messaging can understand that — and the technology seems to think something ought to be done about it.

Siri thinks more women should be judges. How do we know? If you have predictive text messaging enabled on your phone, when you type the word “judge” into a text message, the suggested emoji is a female judge.

Three cheers for Apple for recognizing the need for more judicial diversity.


Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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