WOMEN IN POLITICS

NAME : NIRAJ SWAMY

ROLL NO. : Fms2021086
 INTRODUCTION
 Promoting Women’s Political Leadership in
Governance in India and South Asia. The
Government of India had ushered in the new
millennium by declaring the year 2001 as
‘Women’s Empowerment Year’ to focus on
vision ‘where women are equal partners like
men.’ Women’s empowerment is the ability to
the exercise full control over one’s action. The
last few decades have witnessed some basic
changes in the status and role of women in our
society. “Achieving parity for women in
politics will achieve parity for women in
human rights.”
 Women upliftment and empowerment in India
first received National and International
recognition when the Indira Gandhi’s
Government launched the Indira Mahila yojana
and when the United Nations Development
programme (UNDP) incorporated the issue of
Women Upliftment as one of its primary
objective. In 1954, the United Nations
Convention on the Political Rights of Women
went into force, enshrining women's equal
rights to vote, hold office, and access public
services as provided for male citizens within
national laws. There has been shift in policy
approaches from the concept of ‘welfare’ in
seventies to ‘development’ in eighties and now
to ‘empowerment’ in the nineties
 WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
• Women empowerment has
become a significant topic of
discussion
in development and
economics.. It can also point
to the approaches regarding
other trivialized genders in a
particular political or social
context.
• Women's empowerment and achieving
gender equality is essential for our society
to ensure the sustainable development  of
the country. Many world leaders and
scholars have argued that sustainable
development is impossible without gender
equality and women's
empowerment . Sustainable development
accepts environmental protection, social and
economic development, including women's
empowerment. It is widely believed that, the
full participation of both men and women is
critical for development. Only
acknowledging men's participation will not
be beneficial to sustainable development. In
the context of women and development,
empowerment must include more choices
for women to make on their own.  Without
gender equality and empowerment, the
country could not be just, and social change
 EVIDENCE FROM
INDIA
 • Women's ability to courageously harness the
human capital resource in the undisputed large
numbers of women and specifically, male
gender champions provides them with space
and resident technical support to organize and
sustain momentum for accession to political
leadership. • Work towards barriers that hinder
women’s political participation such as
patriarchy, violence, money, cultural barriers,
and religious barrier. • It has been shown that
wherever women are empowered, there is an
acceleration of development. There is therefore
the need for gender sensitive laws, budget and
empowerment of women through training,
economic empowerment, political support and
affirmative action. • Therefore, women should
positively participate in politics to make a
difference in any society.