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India’s First Woman Diplomat

By LIFS November 5, 2009 at 8:50 AM
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C B Muthamma, India’s first woman diplomat, died at a private hospital in Bangalore. Muthamma, 85, served as the ambassador to Hungary, the Netherlands and Ghana. She was the first woman to enter the Civil Service in 1949, opted for foreign service and was posted as Third Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Paris.

 
She won a landmark Supreme Court judgment against the government for discrimination in promotion, in which the court ruled on “the need to overhaul all service rules to remove the stains of sex discrimination, without waiting for ad-hoc inspiration from writ petitions or gender charity.”
 

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