"The spirit of the [Indian] constitution is to provide equal opportunity to every citizen to grow and attain their potential, irrespective of caste, religion or gender," the court said in its order.
Joint gender-balanced courts to adjudicate on relevant issues.
The capacity building programme focused on issues in reproductive health, steps in Advocacy process, policy issues, gender issues, courting the media, resource mobilization, networking, partnership and leadership issues.
She hired a man as one of her two deputies — "that wasn't by chance, I wanted gender equality" — and courts male chief executives to sign up to seven principles for female empowerment.
"The official policy of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and most state agencies is to provide medically necessary care for the treatment of gender dysphoria, and courts have consistently found that denying such care to prisoners based on blanket exclusions violates the eighth amendment of the constitution".
Belgium's constitutional court imposes a gender quota, requiring the court to be composed of at least a third of judges of each gender.
But during the question-and-answer portion, she made a strong case for more diversity of experience and gender on the court.
Freed perhaps from Shakespeare's play, in which she only appears in five scenes, but not from the confining limitations of patriarchy, or the expectations for a young woman of her class and gender in the court of Elsinore.
The Senate has also passed a law that allows people to change their gender officially without court approval.
An almost surprising number of people to do so have worked formerly for Kleiner, which has yet to recover fully from a bruising battle with one of its former investors, Ellen Pao, after she famously sued the firm for gender discrimination in court.
