Social Sciences, asked by qwerty4616, 2 months ago

why is important to give representation to weaker sections and women in legislature and administration

Answers

Answered by koshalkulena
2

Answer:

Women in India participate in voting, run for public offices and political parties at lower levels more than men. Political activism and voting are the strongest areas of women's political participation. ... Women turnout during India's parliamentary general elections was 65.63%, compared to 67.09% turnout for men.

Answered by Anonymous
1

Answer:

2

Introduction

Women political inclusion is a social, economic, and political good in itself. It matters for democracy

and gender equality. Democratic process requires the participation of all citizens. Any deviations to

this renders any attempts in promoting democracy are just other forms of fostering the social and

political norms that created an unfair and unequal power sharing between men and women. This

results in unequitable social policies and unfair political processes. Women political inclusion

challenges both the power structures and relations that undermine the consideration of women’s

needs and interest in policy-making. The inclusion of women in decision-making is a democratic

good in itself and breaks male dominance in politics (Hassim, 2006). Women political participation

promotes gender equality by challenging the social and political existing structures that perpetuate a

culture of women’s subordination in both the private and public sphere. Including women in the

political process engenders political and economic benefits. Politically, it increases the number of

women in the parliament, curbs corruption, improves policies outcomes, and promotes the

inclusiveness of minority groups in public spheres. Economically, it considers women as actors of

development, encourages the integration of women in the labor market, and promotes economic

and development growth.

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 article 7

called for the state parties to take appropriate steps to eliminate discrimination against women in

both the political spheres by ensuring women and men have equal rights to vote and to be eligible to

vote and to be eligible to held public office, to participate in the policy formulation and

implementation, and to participate in non-governmental organizations.

However, the implementation of CEDAW lagged behind until the fourth World Conference on

Women held in Beijing in 1975, which considers women’s in power and decision making as one of

the twelve critical areas in its Platform of Action. The Platform of Action require states to commit

themselves and to take measures to establish and to ensure that the goal of gender balance in

governmental bodies and committees, in public administrative entities and in the judiciary by setting

specific targets and implementing measures to substantially increase the number of women in order

to achieving equal representation of women and men. In 1995, the UN Economic and Social

Council (ECOSOC) endorsed a 30 percent target of women participation at decision-making levels.

In the African continent, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) formulated

recommendations for a gender policy and institutional framework, which was later disseminated in

the “Declaration on Gender and Development” and adopted in November 1997 in Blantyre by the

SADC Heads of Government.

Explanation:

please mark my ans as brainliest please

Similar questions