Question

woman reservation give reason​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. To provide them equal opportunity.

2. To help to improve their status.

Answer 2

The most recent Lok Sabha (17th) session witnessed the highest number of women ever in the Indian Parliament, with 78 women MPs elected from all over the country. Women’s representation in the Lok Sabha has increased from 11.3 percent in 2014 to 14 percent in 2019, coming across as a positive development. However, the diversity composition within the group of elected women candidates needs further analysis on the lines of caste, class, religion and ethnicity. Adding to this, these numbers are also significantly lower in India than its neighboring countries like Nepal (32.7 percent), Pakistan (20.2 percent) and Bangladesh (20.7 percent). The relatively stronger representation of women in these countries is due to the implementation of legislated gender-based reservations. This increased representation of women in politics is seen to grab local, national and global attention on issues of violence against women and grow awareness around sexual harassment and mental trauma.

THE BILL CERTAINLY LOOKS PROMISING IN ITS ATTEMPT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE INTERNAL COMPLEXITIES WITHIN THE CATEGORY OF WOMEN BY RECOGNIZING THEIR RESPECTIVE DEPRIVATION POINTS DERIVED FROM CASTE INEQUALITIES.

It is about time that we move beyond a general cry for women’s empowerment and try to look outside our assumed sense of homogeneity with respect to the category of women. In the context of the Women’s Reservation Bill or The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill proposed on 06 May 2008, by the UPA-I government, that remains pending till date in the Indian Parliament, the proposition to have one-third of all seats reserved for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies was a sincere concern aimed at increasing the representation of women in these male dominated spaces. The same Bill also seeks to reserve one third of the total number of seats for women from Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. However, reservations for women from Other Backward Classes (OBCs) has not been incorporated within the Bill, despite receiving recommendations from the Report examining the 1996 Women’s Reservation Bill. The reservation policy is said to be discontinued 15 years after the commencement of the Amendment Act.

The Bill certainly looks quite promising in its attempt to acknowledge the internal complexities within the category of women by recognizing their respective deprivation points derived from caste inequalities. Such a Bill would ensure that their specific narratives, concerns and modes of oppression are voiced out in the public sphere, which otherwise receives very little attention. This lack of attention mostly results due to two major reasons -one, that only a section of the privileged, upper caste, urban educated women occupy the few spaces available for women, and two, within the existing framework of general reservations, the privileged among the underprivileged, that is the men within these socially deprived groups are able to find more opportunities of education and employment than the women.