According to the World Bank, in 2021 the proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments was at a disappointing 14 per cent. The highest proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments in 2021 was 61 per cent in Rwanda.
Gujarat High Court recently opened the General or the Open category for reserved class women.
All victories, big and small, matter in the fight for equality. Public spaces that have traditionally excluded transgender people or only allowed them spaces at the fringes can be scary place.
Recently, IIT Bhubaneswar decided to add 22 more seats exclusively for women in different BTech courses. This step has been taken to ensure equal access to female students and to reduce gender disparity in the field of engineering. However, the move has generated mixed responses. Reservation vs Merit In a country like India, reservation in […]
Haryana is a state that struggles with women’s issues — from representation to a widely-shared disastrous child sex ratio, to crimes against women, as this paper examines. It comprises of 21 Districts at present out of which 19 districts have sex ratio lower than 880. According to Census 2011 it has the worst sex ratio (877) and lowest […]
The Bihar government has announced 50 percent reservation in the judicial system, including “horizontal” reservation for women. ALSO READ: Women outnumber men in voting in Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s cabinet passed the the Bihar Uchcha Nyayik Seva (Sansodhan) Niymawali, 2016, and Bihar Asainik Seva (Sansodhan) Niymawali, 2016 and announced 50 percent reservation in the judicial […]
The Indian Railways is aiming to increase representation of women, with an announcement that it will set aside a sub-quota of 33% of catering units for women within reserved categories. Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu has said many more new reformative steps like these will be introduced to bring in gender equality. Here are details of the […]
The Union government might bring in a law that would make for 50% reservation for women in all urban local bodies.
According to a report by The Washington Post, after the German Consulate mandated a quote for women in their big-sized companies’ boards last week, analysts attempt to study whether this move will be a boon or a bane.
