15 of 17 Anchorage Superior Court judges are male.  89%. Statewide, on the superior court, around 20% of the judges are women.  This is at a time when the legal profession is steadily moving toward gender parity and more women go to law school. It's unequal and unfair. 

There is a thick glass ceiling at the judiciary.  And part of the problem is the way we select judges, which, while better than electing them, has its flaws.  In an adversarial profession, males lawyers are considered "strong advocates" and "tough opponents" for the same strategies that get women labeled "b*tches" and other,  anatomically-based epithets. This shows in the bar polling. 

For as long as I've been doing this,  I've heard male lawyers make offensive comments about female judges, or write them off as not as smart as their male counterparts. (They're always proven wrong.)  

Some enterprising law student could get a journal article re:  male lawyers' preempting female judges.  The stats are out there.