Women in India have won the right to work as bar staff and serve alcohol after a landmark ruling by the country's supreme court dismissed a petition calling for a ban on females behind the bar.
Although laws vary across India, almost all states impose restrictions on women working behind a bar.
Perhaps the most draconian ruling was in Delhi, which banned women from serving on the grounds they needed to be protected from the bad behaviour of drunken men.
The supreme court has decided that such attitudes are outdated for modern India. Justices S B Sinha and H S Bedi said it was a matter of equality and that every person irrespective of gender had the right to pursue a profession. The bench also cut the age limit of bar staff from 25 to 21.
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