Bhumi Purohit on Female Leaders and Bureaucratic Resistance
Ideas of India
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Are Women's Reservations at the State Assembly Level Going to Help?
So far we don't have very good data on whether women vote as a group. So i think partly this has to do with the relationship between power and structures. There needs to be a mechanism like higher level quotas to get women elected at higher levels, just by the fact that women are then able to advance into higher level politics through the help of quota s. Means there's an incentive for parties to take women seriously at the local level,. Like the grampenchi.
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