The crux of the contention in this batch of writ petitions is there shall be no discrimination on ground of sex, which is perhaps the most controversial of all protective measures, an ever raging controversy and the issue, has been now set in motion in the form of legal action. This Court deems it apt to quote the great jurist before taking up the writ petitions for consideration :

"It is of the very nature of a free society to advance in its standards of what is deemed reasonable and right. Representing as it does a living principle, due process is not confined within a permanent catalogue of what may at a given time be deemed the limits or the essentials of fundamental rights."

JUSTICE FRANKFURTHER, in Wolf v. Colorado 338 US 25, 27 1949].

In the present batch of writ petitions the plea that has been advanced is essentially a claim of equality for women with passion and the equality means equality of opportunity for both men and women. It is the plea of the petitioners that no discrimination shall be practised against women on account of sex in their livelihood, in their right to be treated as equal which includes equality of opportunity. In other words, absolute equali