Deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India, Ms Shyamala Gopinath attained superannuation yesterday, June 20, 2011. For a service tenor ranging to nearly four decades, Gopinath said gender never posed as a barrier to her carrier path.

"I don't think a glass ceiling operates for the governor [of the RBI] or for that matter, for any of its officers. At the RBI, all officers are treated as officers and not as women or men. I am an RBI officer like any other. Because of one's gender one would not be able to climb up the ladder here," Gopinath said.

"In my 39-years-of-life at RBI, never ever I felt that I should be treated differently for being an woman. Being women does not help or places one at a disadvantageous position at RBI," she said.

She joined RBI in the year 1972.

"There have been many testing periods during my career at the central bank. But I always enjoyed such situations, because our responsibility is to ensure that the public confidence in the system is not shaken," said Gopinath.