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India: Political empowerment of women in India poor: UNDP

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India is far below these countries with 11 per cent women in the Lower House.
“Despite frequent attempts to introduce a similar policy of reserved seats for the Lower House (Lok Sabha) of the national Parliament , these initiatives have repeatedly failed.

With 60 women members of Parliament out of 545 (11 per cent), nationally, India’s Lower House ranks only 105th worldwide,” says the report.“Among the Asia-Pacific countries with the highest proportions of women in Parliament in 2010, most had constitutional, legal or party quotas. By contrast, among the 20 Asia-Pacific countries lagging behind in growth, none had implemented quotas,” says the report. 

Read more at Deccan Herald, published 22 September 2012.

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India is far below these countries with 11 per cent women in the Lower House.
“Despite frequent attempts to introduce a similar policy of reserved seats for the Lower House (Lok Sabha) of the national Parliament , these initiatives have repeatedly failed.

With 60 women members of Parliament out of 545 (11 per cent), nationally, India’s Lower House ranks only 105th worldwide,” says the report.“Among the Asia-Pacific countries with the highest proportions of women in Parliament in 2010, most had constitutional, legal or party quotas. By contrast, among the 20 Asia-Pacific countries lagging behind in growth, none had implemented quotas,” says the report. 

Read more at Deccan Herald, published 22 September 2012.

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UNDP