Future in legal profession belongs to women, Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said on Friday..The CJI stated that times have changed in the profession, with greater gender diversity seen among judicial officers. "Times have changed. Both women and men are coming in large numbers to the judicial fraternity in many States ... [Women] have outstripped in terms of the number of men coming into the judicial fraternity, the judicial service. I do believe that this is the sign of the times when judicial services will be enriched by the presence of what constitutes a very rich, and more than half our society today ... So I do believe that the future in our profession belongs to the women," he said.The CJI was speaking at the inaugural function of a new building of the Andhra Pradesh Judicial Academy as well several digitisation projects of the High Court..The CJI in his address said that it was the profession's failing that most district courts still did not have usable washrooms or sanitary-napkin dispensers for women. He, however, said that he was delighted to know that among the young judicial recruits in the State's Judicial Academy, men and women were in equal numbers.Legal profession is one of inclusion and judicial education was about imparting constitutional values as much as technical knowledge of the law, the CJI opined. In his speech, the CJI also spoke about how the black and white dress code in the profession represented the contrast between truth and untruth, just and unjust. Further, cases often involved adjudication between what was right and more right, between two wrongs, or even a balance between right and wrong.
Future in legal profession belongs to women, Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said on Friday..The CJI stated that times have changed in the profession, with greater gender diversity seen among judicial officers. "Times have changed. Both women and men are coming in large numbers to the judicial fraternity in many States ... [Women] have outstripped in terms of the number of men coming into the judicial fraternity, the judicial service. I do believe that this is the sign of the times when judicial services will be enriched by the presence of what constitutes a very rich, and more than half our society today ... So I do believe that the future in our profession belongs to the women," he said.The CJI was speaking at the inaugural function of a new building of the Andhra Pradesh Judicial Academy as well several digitisation projects of the High Court..The CJI in his address said that it was the profession's failing that most district courts still did not have usable washrooms or sanitary-napkin dispensers for women. He, however, said that he was delighted to know that among the young judicial recruits in the State's Judicial Academy, men and women were in equal numbers.Legal profession is one of inclusion and judicial education was about imparting constitutional values as much as technical knowledge of the law, the CJI opined. In his speech, the CJI also spoke about how the black and white dress code in the profession represented the contrast between truth and untruth, just and unjust. Further, cases often involved adjudication between what was right and more right, between two wrongs, or even a balance between right and wrong.
