Gender Neutral Laws - Need of an Hour

zThe team at Ivy Law participated in a webinar on “Gender Neutral Laws: Need of an Hour” organized by the National Legal Rights Consortium. The webinar addressed existing gender biases and inequalities while discussing real world case studies and experiences and illuminating the need of gender neutral laws in India. Emphasis was placed on establishing various strategies for effective implementation of such laws along with a common consensus that the new criminal laws should also be made gender neutral and the concerned authorities should keep in mind the changing times while formulating the statutes. How the gender neutral laws should be administered via proper investigation and inquiry so that they are not misused by either women or men, was also discussed at length.