As CJI constitutes an all-women bench, what's the status of women in law?

Shrinking numbers: A third of judges in subordinate courts are women, but only 13.2% in high courts & 12.5% in SC

In 2012-13, of the 175,332 students enrolled in LLB courses, a third were women. While the number of seats in LLB courses has since doubled, the proportion of women has barely changed. Data from the All India Survey on Higher Education shows that in 2019-20, of the nearly 400,000 LLB students, 33 per cent were women.

It is not surprising then that India has not had a woman as chief justice since Independence. Justice BV Nagarathna will assume that mantle in 2027, correcting this anomaly.

The proportion of women in the Supreme Court remains low at 12.5 per cent. Five