 |  | | | Women in Indian Politics | 22 Aug 2007 | | |
How effective is the Indian system of quotas for women?
In India, while giving poor women a livelihood has become an important way of empowering them, giving women a political voice is proving more of a challenge. There are fewer than one in ten women politicians in parliament and at state level, but in rural areas there have been quotas for women at all village and district level elections since 1993. Theyβve had some success - in some states, as many as half the local politicians are now women. But as Sunita Thakur reports this has not always been as successful as it would first appear. | |
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