Gender Mainstreaming through Political Participation of Women
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https://doi.org/10.48001/978-81-966500-4-9-15Keywords:
gender equality, political participation, constitutional amendment, policies, committees, reservationAbstract
Political participation of women is adjudged as a method of gender equality with the objective of gender mainstreaming. The issue has been in focus at national and international level and addressed through the efforts of United Nations, Millenium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals intended to transform the world. India has also made all sincere efforts to bring gender into mainstream including giving opportunities to women in political arena through different instruments viz. constitutional amendments, formulation of policies and constitution of committees. This paper has taken a stock of above efforts in the descriptive research with analytical approach to assess the progress achieved in India. A comparison has also been made with the international practices in this regard to know the ranking of India. The paper has studied and examined the strides of different policies, reports and discussed them to reach the results for the diagnosis of grey areas and suggestion have been proposed to ameliorate the situation. It has been found India has taken many initiatives in the form of constitutional amendments, constitution of committees, formulation of policies but the gap in actual implementation has adversely affected the progress, consequently the political participation of women could not be realised to the expected level. The findings and recommendations guide the academicians, policy planners, researchers and others who are at the helm of affairs
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