Longer court battles would be onerous on litigants and that would impact the clientele of female lawyers more than male lawyers, he added.
“The inability to get a timely outcome may impact the practice of a male as well as female lawyer. But everything else being equal, in a society that associates intellect and caliber with gender, the impact of delay will be greater for a woman lawyer, than a male lawyer. She is not only fighting her immediate opponent in court, who perhaps benefits from the delay, but is also combating years of gendered perceptions about her innate ability to be a lawyer,” CJI Chandrachud explained.
Source: Barandbench
