ELIMINATE GENDER STEREOTYPES – SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ISSUES 30 PAGES HANDBOOK TO ELIMINATE GENDER STEREOTYPES FROM INDIAN LAWS

The Supreme court of India unveils a handbook of 30 pages to eliminate gender stereotypes from the Indian laws.

GENDER STEREOTYPES

The Supreme Court of India identified a number of words and phrases in Indian laws that leads to the gender stereotype society.

Career woman, fallen woman, faithful or obedient wife, eve-teasing, hermaphrodite etc. are some words or phrases out of them. Supreme Court told that these are gender-unjust terms which are often heard in Indian courts.

In a new handbook released by the top court offered the correct terms that should be used instead.

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ISSUED 30 PAGES HANDBOOK

The 30-pages “Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes” aims to free the judiciary and the legal community from the mechanical application of gender stereotypical languages in judgments, orders and court pleadings.

Chief Justice D. Y. Chandrachud foreword this handbook and said that he hoped the handbook would mark a significant milestone in the journey towards a more just and equitable society.

CHIEF JUSCTICE D. Y. CHANDRACHUD

Chief Justice further said that “I sincerely hope that this Handbook is widely read by all members of the legal profession in India to ensure that legal reasoning and writing is free of harmful notions about women.

The Handbook will give a fresh impetus to our quest towards a gender-just legal order, and will be a crucial document to ensure that courts can deliver equal and impartial justice to individuals of all genders”.

This handbook suggested to use “wife” only instead of several terms used at different times like “dutiful wife, faithful wife, good wife or obedient wife”. This book explains what stereotype means and how it affects the society.

It defined stereotype “as a set idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong.” Like any person, judges may also unconsciously hold or rely on stereotypes.

If a judge relies on preconceived assumptions about people or groups when deciding cases or writing judgements, the harm caused can be enormous.

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*Source- The Hindu, August 17, 2023, p-1 & weblink – https://main.sci.gov.in/pdf/LU/16082023_073106.pdf

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