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In India, the proportion of women in legislature has been very low. For example, the percentge of elected women members in Lok Sabha has never reached even 10 percent of its total strength. Their share in the state assemblies is less than 5 percent. In this respect, India is among the bottom group of nations in the world. India is behind the averages for several developing countries of Africa and Latin America. In the government, cabinets are largely all-male even when a woman becomes the Chief Minister or the Prime Minister.
One way to solve this problem is to make it legally binding to have a fair proportion of women in the elected bodies. This is what the Panchayati Raj has done in India. One-third of seats in local government bodies – in panchayats and municipalities – are now reserved for women. Now there are more than 10 lakh elected women representatives in rural and urban local bodies. Women’s organizations and activists have been demanding a similar reservation of at least one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies for women. A bill with this proposal has been pending before the Parliament for more than a decade. But there is no consensus over this among all the political parties. The bill has not been passed.
1. What are reserved constituencies? Why constituencies are reserved?
2. Why women are not given reservation in Lok Sabha?
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Thus, there may be as many Wards or Constituencies as the number of elected seats in the elected body. Reserved constituencies are those constituencies in which seats are reserved for SCs and STs on the basis of their population.
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The Women's Reservation Bill or The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, 2008, is passed in the Parliament of India which propose to amend the Constitution of India to reserve 1/3rd
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MINORITY REPRESENTATION OF A POLITICAL MAJORITY GROUP : WOMEN IN INDIAN DEMOCRATIC PROCESS
Rashmi Shrivastava
The Indian Journal of Political Science
Vol. 72, No. 2 (April - June
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