rohitj's domain » Women http://rohitj.net Yet more clitches Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:03:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Women reservation in India http://rohitj.net/blog/2010/03/10/women-reservation-in-india/ http://rohitj.net/blog/2010/03/10/women-reservation-in-india/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:29:54 +0000 rohitj http://rohitj.net/?p=179 Indian parliament is trying to bring women reservation in elections. Which means that each political party will have atleast 1/3rd women candidates in elections. I personally find this decision useful. Useful because we need women in political system. Some might argue that its not gonna help. But I think it will. Having more women in political system means more concerns about women empowerment in society. The biggest opposition for this bill probably came from SP, the party which has quite some influence from Muslims. Now a women leader from Muslim side is quite uncommon. This bill will encourage Muslim women to come up and have a voice. Of course, one women leader in a city will empower other women in that city.

Now I know this is sexist. I am not really against sexism or racism, but this is too much. But you can not win this war with ideals. (I don’t fully support Gandhi philosophy).  What is important is that it remains at 1/3rd, and doesnt increase. Come on, women is India are not that incompetitive.

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