New Delhi, March 9 -- Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Sunday said that greater representation of women in the judiciary concerns the confidence of nearly 650 million Indian mothers, sisters, and daughters who must believe that the justice system understands their realities and will respond to them with fairness. Addressing the First National Conference of Indian Women in Law on the topic "Half the Nation - Half the Bench," the CJI said, "When half of India's population looks to the institution entrusted with safeguarding constitutional rights and finds, only limited reflection of its own experience, the concern transcends statistics, rather, it goes to the heart of institutional adequacy." Pertinently, he said, "It concerns the confidence of approximately 650 million Indian mothers, sisters, and daughters who must believe that the justice system understands their realities and will respond to them with fairness." He recalled the words of late Justice Fathima Beevi, the first woman judge of the Supreme Court, who said, "I have opened the door," upon her appointment in October 1989. "More than three decades later, the responsibility before all of us is to ensure that the door she opened does not depend on individual exceptionalism. It must remain open not by circumstance, but by structure - sustained by institutional will rather than personal breakthroughs," said CJI. Underlining the need for more representation of women on the bench, he said, "Women often bring distinct insights shaped by how law operates in homes, workplaces, and everyday realities." the Chief Justice of India said....