By Sebastián Lacunza & Luciana Bertoia Herald Staff Highton de Nolasco would prefer a woman to be appointed to the SC if a vacancy arises A month after Justice Carmen Argibay’s passing, Elena Highton de Nolasco remains as the only woman in the country’s highest court, composed now of six members. A recognized authority on civil law and widely known as the silent justice, the Deputy Chief Justice welcomed the Herald — the newspaper she has read since she was a child — in her office. There she spoke about political and economic lobbies, pending reforms, the access to justice and reflected on her ten years as a Supreme Court justice. After the death of justice Carmen Argibay, you took over the Supreme Court’s Women’s Office. Do you think there is a sexist environment in the judiciary? Discrimination is everywhere but people have only recently started to become aware of it. Some provinces are certainly worse than others. And there even used to be some sexist justices in the
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