DESK BRIEF: Recent Collegium recommendations show a renewed attention towards ensuring regional and gender diversity in Indian courts.

With hardly any senior women judges in India's High Courts, gender diversity at the Supreme Court will take a hit.

In the 50s, 60s, 70s, and most of the 80s, the Supreme Court had no women Judges. Since 1989, it has had 11.

SC Judgments in the challenge to the Hijab Ban and on abortion laws for married women were important milestones in equality for women.

The Supreme Court bench has the highest number of women ever, maximum judges from the Bombay and Delhi High Courts and mostly Hindu judges.