It came after a group of anti-trafficking NGOs from across the country wrote to chief justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud | Latest News India
Jaising reveals that she has not only faced micro-aggressions, but has on occasion also been asked by male colleagues to not raise her voice in court, despite aggression being a cherished trait in top.
Jaising has written a letter to CJI DY Chandrachud suggesting that the Supreme Court release handbooks to address gender stereotyping in the Bar, as well as in pleadings and arguments before courts.
In a list showing preferred usage over stereotype-promoting language, the words ‘seductress’, ‘slut’, ‘whore’, ‘woman of loose morals’, and ‘chaste woman’, among others, have been replaced with simply ‘woman’.
In a big move towards gender sensitisation in legal proceedings, the Supreme Court today launched a handbook that lists words and phrases loaded with gender stereotypes and cautions judges against using them in court orders.