Mumbai, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Exactly 30 years after women’s empowerment got a kick-start with 33 per cent reservations in local self-government bodies, which later went upto 50 per cent, the Elected Women Representatives (EWR)s have…
Mumbai, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Exactly 30 years after women’s empowerment got a kick-start with 33 percent reservation in local self-government bodies, which later went upto 50 per cent, the Elected Women Representatives (EWR)s have not…
Shimla, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Panchayats in Himachal Pradesh, where women voters outnumber men in every election, have been fair to women much before the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Parliament. Over a…
Raipur, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chhattisgarh, one of the newly formed states in the country, has reached a stage in its development where women have seen an increasing share in power as time has passed. The…
Ranchi, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Only 11 of the 95 women heads (pradhans) in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, responded to calls themselves on their mobiles, while the calls to 84 women heads were attended by their…
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) After the local body elections in Kerala in December 2020, the Left Front chose several young women leaders for key local body president posts in the state. The 21-year-old CPI-M leader…
Agartala, Sep 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tripura was the first state among the eight northeastern states of India to have 50 per cent reservation for women in the three-tier gram panchayats and urban local bodies in 2010…
Lucknow, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) If there is one state where men have benefitted more than women because of reservation for women, it is Uttar Pradesh. In Uttar Pradesh, out of the 9.1 lakh representatives, 3, 04,638…
Patna, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The term, ‘Mukhiya Pati’ is very common in states like Bihar. These husbands of women in power are not public representatives but they act like elected representatives at the Panchayat level….
Hyderabad, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Telangana claims to be among the first states to provide 50 per cent reservation for women in local bodies and a whopping 53 per cent of the sarpanches in the state…
Jaipur, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Women’s Reservation Bill has been approved in both Houses of Parliament. If proof was needed that reservation works for the better of both, the women and their constituents, while creating…
Chennai, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Caste is deep rooted in Tamil Nadu and so is discrimination against women in certain pockets. However if they brave the odds and fight for their rights, as many women have…
Bhopal, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Making a mockery of women’s representation, the husband of a woman municipal councillor in Madhya Pradesh was seen actively participating as well as creating a ruckus during an official meeting while…
Kolkata, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) On September 12, 1996, a soft- spoken and extremely low profile Lok Sabha member from West Bengal became a pioneer in raising the demand for 33 per cent reservation for women…
Bengaluru, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) When the results for over 70,000 gram panchayat seats spread across 5,728 villages in Karnataka were announced in 2020, the numbers revealed the assertiveness of nari shakti. While 50 per cent…