Across the world, gender disparity at the workplace is so obvious that it is almost too easy to miss...Though the UN has been vocal in its attempt to provide equal opportunities for women across the world, and lent its support to ending violence against women, promoting leadership and participation and the cause of economic empowerment for women, the move to correct the imbalance within its ranks, turns the focus onto the position of women in professions that have been traditional male bastions. Especially in India, where the accusations of patriarchy and gender bias are common...The first woman to join officer rank in the Indian police service in 1972, Kiran Bedi remembers how in 1997 a male colleague two years her junior had been chosen as commissioner instead of her. “It was a clear case of preference...While only four per cent of officers in the Army were women, the percentage in Navy was five per cent...There’s never been a woman Chief Justice of India.