Women should rethink their Inheritance | Leila Seth | TEDxGatewayWomen

“As I’ve got older, I have begun to realize that women have been put down for so long that reservation is absolutely essential.”
- Leila Seth
Leila Seth was the first woman to top the Bar examinations in London in 1957. Thereafter she practiced in Patna, Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Delhi. She was the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become chief justice of a state in India. She was appointed as a judge in 1978 and retired as Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh in 1992.

She is involved in pro bono work pertaining to health, human rights, women and children’s rights, education, environment and ethics.

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