India: Women Leadership Reservation Boosts Aspirations of Indian Girls
Reservation for women in leadership positions in Indian villages is having a positive role model effect and has changed the way young girls and their parents think about female leadership, a new research has said.
In villages with two terms of female leadership, gender gap in parents' aspirations for their children's career and education closed by 25 percent, as compared to villages that never had a female leader.
Similarly, the gender gap in career and education aspirations closed by 32 percent in adolescents.
Read the complete story at News Track India, published January 13, 2012.
Reservation for women in leadership positions in Indian villages is having a positive role model effect and has changed the way young girls and their parents think about female leadership, a new research has said.
In villages with two terms of female leadership, gender gap in parents' aspirations for their children's career and education closed by 25 percent, as compared to villages that never had a female leader.
Similarly, the gender gap in career and education aspirations closed by 32 percent in adolescents.
Read the complete story at News Track India, published January 13, 2012.