న్యాయ వ్యవస్థలోనే మహిళలకు న్యాయం, 50% రేజర్వేషన్లు కోరిన CJI||CJI for 50% Women's quota in judiciary
Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Sunday, September 26, called for the “urgent correction” of the gender imbalance in the Indian judiciary, stating that women are entitled to 50% reservation in the judiciary and should demand it, the Indian Express reported.
The CJI’s remarks came at a felicitation ceremony which was organised by the Lady Advocates of the Supreme Court of India, where he remarked that, after thousands of years of suppression, equal representation is a right of women. “It is not a matter of charity,” he said.
During his speech, CJI Ramana also detailed the measly representation of women in the judiciary in numbers, stating that women make up only 30% of the lower judiciary, 11.5% of the high courts and 12% of the Supreme Court. Moreover, only 15% of the country’s 1.7 million advocates are women.
The picture is worse when it comes to bar councils: only 2% of women are elected representatives in state bar councils and the Bar Council of India has no female members whatsoever.
The CJI went on to detail the real-world problems women in the judiciary face. The gender roles which are enforced on women when they choose to become lawyers, the dual-responsibility they have to contend with as family responsibilities inevitably fall on them and a general preference of clients for male advocates all pose significant challenges to women in the judicial system.
https://thewire.in/law/cji-calls-for-reservation-for-women-in-judiciary
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