Lahore High Court’s Justice Ayesha Malik was sworn in as the Pakistan Supreme Court’s first female judge on January 24, 2022.
- The Pakistan Supreme Court was established in 1956 and it took 67 years for for a woman to reach this position.
- According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, women reportedly account for 17 per cent of judges overall and 4.4 per cent in high courts.
- In India, where the Supreme Court, established in 1950, currently has four female judges out of a total of 34. Three of them were appointed in September 2021 and one of them, Justice BV Nagarathna could possibly become India’s first female Chief Justice in 2027.
- India’s first female judge Justice Fathima Beevi was appointed in 1989, just eight years after Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court.
- In 1981, O’Connor was appointed associate justice of the highest court by President Ronald Reagan.
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