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| Enhancing Women’s Representation in Legislatures |
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| Women’s Marginal Role in Politics |
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Author(s) : Madhu Kishwar
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| The law to reserve one-third of the total number of seats for women was implemented at the panchayat and zilla parishad level in all the states of India without any opposition from any political quarter whatsoever. Ramakrishna Hegde’s government in Karnataka started this process in 1983 before the central legis... |
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| Enhancing Women's Representation in Legislature |
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| Enhancing Women's Representation in Legislature |
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Author(s) :
Madhu Kishwar (Manushi, New Delhi), Dr Jayaprakash Narayan (Lok Satta, Hyderabad) Dhirubhai Sheth (Lokayan, Delhi), Yogendra Yadav (CSDS, Delhi)
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| The ugly scenes and stalemate over tabling the Women's Reservation Bill in parliament have brought the grim truth into sharper focus that politics has proven to be very inhospitable for women in independent India. What we are witnessing today is a worrisome phenomenon of further decline in the participation of women, n... |
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| Out of the Zenana Dabba |
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| Strategies for Enhancing Women’s Political Representation |
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Author(s) : Madhu Kishwar
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| THE Prime Minister himself could not make it that day. At a conference organised by the National Commission for Women in the last week of July, a few of us had been asked by the Commission to pose questions to the Prime Minister on his views regarding 33 percent reservation for women in Parliament and state assemblies... |
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| The Logic of Quotas |
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| Women's Movement Splits on the Reservation Bill |
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Author(s) : Madhu Kishwar
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| After much fireworks, the bill to provide 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state legislatures has been put on the back-burner, which is exactly where it belongs. The pro-reservation lobby is determined to keep the issue alive. Just as well. It is good to keep it alive as an idea, as an issue to be r... |
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