UPSC Editorial Analysis: Towards Gender-Responsive Justice: Addressing Women’s Under-Representation in the Indian Judiciary

General Studies-1; Topic: Role of women and women’s organization    Introduction India’s judicial system has witnessed improved participation of women at the lower levels, especially in district courts. However, this progress sharply declines in the higher judiciary. As highlighted in the Supreme Court’s State of the Judiciary Report (2023), women constitute merely 4% of judges in …