Women’s Reservation Bill: history, importance and why The long silence?
Source: Feminism in India
India is a nation born out of a long freedom struggle that promised to function on equal representation of people from diverse genders, religions, ethnicities Etc. As a democratic nation, it promised to uphold the rights of every individual from varied backgrounds. If giving equal rights was a priority, so was the equal representation in the spaces that implement these rights in the first place i.e., Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and state legislative assemblies.
However, what soon followed was men taking care of these democratic bodies alone while the decline of women’s representation subsequently took place. In such a state of affairs came the need to implement the Women`s Reservation Bill in India.
Click here to read the full article published by Feminism in India on 12 September 2023.
India is a nation born out of a long freedom struggle that promised to function on equal representation of people from diverse genders, religions, ethnicities Etc. As a democratic nation, it promised to uphold the rights of every individual from varied backgrounds. If giving equal rights was a priority, so was the equal representation in the spaces that implement these rights in the first place i.e., Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha and state legislative assemblies.
However, what soon followed was men taking care of these democratic bodies alone while the decline of women’s representation subsequently took place. In such a state of affairs came the need to implement the Women`s Reservation Bill in India.
Click here to read the full article published by Feminism in India on 12 September 2023.