New Delhi, March 9 -- Tushar Mehta, the Solicitor General of India on Saturday said that at a time when there is a greater focus on gender equality across sectors in the country, several women have excelled across sectors including the legal profession and there are many eminent professionals who have made it big solely on the back of their merit.

Speaking at a programme 'Celebrating Women in the Legal Fraternity and their remarkable journey' organized by the Society of Indian Law Firms Ladies Group (SLG), the Solicitor General said that historically there has been a wrong notion being spread that women are a weaker sex and they were the legislative obstructions in participation of women in the legal professional in the pre-independence ...