why do we need reservation of seats for women?
Answers
tereotyping (of any kind) by society plays a crucial role in career choices made by the kid. In India, today this results in many educated women working in hospitals and schools rather than in economically more profitable positions such as engineering or management. Economic independence is the key to fighting domestic violence, female infanticide and dowry deaths.
Survey Findings and Crime reports
~ 42% psychological abuse, 23% psychological+physical abuse in India
~ 1,18,866 cases a year of 'cruelty by husband or his relatives'
~ 8391 dowry deaths in 2010
~ 500K girls killed in female infanticide every year in India - The Indian Holocaust
Source References in Indian Arranged Marriages on Myths Of India
India loses 3 million girls in infanticide (about Holocaust Timeline: Statistics of the Holocaust - 6M jews were killed)
Women are not asking for more seats than their percentage in population. So where is the question of "unequal treatment"?
American Experiment
Owing to social discouragement, women fail to attain their true potential even after close to 100 years of women's liberation in USA. We have even seen a African-American president - but yet to see a woman president. It is a shame.