Research and write how political representation can eliminate socio-economic problems that arise in India
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Women political participation is a human right. Political participation as a human right grants
“citizens the right to take part, directly or through representatives, in the conduct of public affairs and
government, and to vote at genuine periodic elections based on universal suffrage and the secret
ballot” (Steiner, 1988; Bunch 1990).It is enshrined in both the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Women political participation
was later integrated in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women (CEDAW) adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1979.
The widespread adoption of quotas and the surge of women representation in politics have
engendered a literature that explores the impact of quotas on women’s representation. The literature
on women’s representation investigates whether quotas focuses on the overall numbers of women
elected in office (descriptive representation), whether elected women pursue political objectives that
are different from men (substantive representation), and how women’s presence affects the
perceived legitimacy of elected bodies or alters voters beliefs about male domination in politics
(symbolic representation).