Essays about: "women reservation bill"

Found 2 essays containing the words women reservation bill.

  1. 1. The Complexities of Empowering Rural Indian Women (A story of Indian Panchayats)

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Rushina Ansari; [2015]
    Keywords : Empowerment; Feminism; Women; Gender; Equality; Rural; India; Development; Reforms; Intrinsic; Reproductive Rights; Citizenship; Communication;

    Abstract : In the following research I strive to focus on the various aspects that influence the‘empowerment’ issue of rural Indian women. I refer to two governmental reforms inparticular - the historic ‘Women’s Reservation Bill’ (WRB) which insists on a onethird participation of women at the lower tier of political structure in India called thePanchayats and the controversial ‘Two Child Norm’ (TCN) which restricts politicalparticipation of both men and women Panchayat candidates if the couple chooses tohave more that two children (Buch, 2005). READ MORE

  3. 2. The Impact of a Quota System on Women’s Empowerment - A field study in West Bengal, India

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Joakim Persson; [2009]
    Keywords : empowerment; Leadership; India; women; power; local; democracy; panchayat; West; Bengal; Economics; econometrics; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Women’s empowerment is thought to be one of the main issues when talking about gender equality, economic growth and poverty in the academic world today. In India many states are using a reservation bill to ensure women’s participation in the political decision-making at local level. READ MORE