Question

In india women political representation is very low justify the statement

Answer 1

Women political representation is very low in India because it is an established fact that the Indian women, inspire of the constitutional safeguards are still struggling for equality of status and equality of participation in the development process. In the suppression of women, male dominance has added to the problems. It can also be justified by this fact that out of the 543 MP's elected, Only 62 are women which means 89% are male members and just 11% are female members in the parliament.

Answer 2

(i) The percentage of elected women members in Lok Sabha has never reached even 10 percent of its total strength.

(ii) The share of women 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.

(iii) In the government, Cabinets are largely all male even when a women becomes the Chief Minister or the Prime Minister.

(iv) There is urgent need to increase women representation in the legislature to empower women.