The issue of a gender gap in the judiciary<\/a> is in the spotlight after a plea filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association in Supreme Court (SC). The plea advocated for increasing women participation in the judicial set up in order to augment gender justice<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The participation of women in the judiciary so far has remained minuscule, especially at higher levels. Therefore, an attitudinal change, along with a strong will to attain gender equality is needed amongst the male judges, in order to curb the gender gap in the judiciary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Both the government and collegium system<\/a> is responsible for such dismal performance.<\/span><\/p>\n There are some hurdles to bridge the gender gap in the judiciary.<\/p>\n The collegium should now take a liberal stance towards women judges and must ensure at least 5-6 women judges are present in SC at least within a decade. This will not only ensure gender parity but will also give India its first female chief justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction The issue of a gender gap in the judiciary is in the spotlight after a plea filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association in Supreme Court (SC). The plea advocated for increasing women participation in the judicial set up in order to augment gender justice. The participation of women in the judiciary so… Continue reading Issue of Gender Gap in Judiciary – Explained, Pointwise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,9],"tags":[1337,1396],"class_list":["post-102198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-pm","category-public","tag-po_2","tag-soc_5","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Current Gender Gap in Judiciary<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Why is such a Gender Gap is prevalent?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Important Article and cases<\/b><\/h6>\n
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Need to bridge the gender gap in Judiciary<\/h5>\n
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Lack of Gender sensitivity in the Court Judgements:<\/h6>\n
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Challenges in bridging the gender gap in the judiciary<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Suggestions to improve Gender Gap in Judiciary<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Conclusion<\/b><\/h5>\n