Women Reservation Bill: Sweden has 46% women MPs and South Africa has 45% women MPs, where does India stand in the list?
Women Reservation Bill: All political parties talk about increasing the participation of women in politics. But the ground reality is far away from this. At present there is only one woman Chief Minister in the country, Mamata Banerjee. She is the supremo of Trinamool Congress. When it comes to giving tickets to women members in Lok Sabha or Assembly elections, political parties give tickets keeping in mind the probability of the candidate winning.
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In India, the bill introduced to give 33 percent reservation to women representatives in the legislature has been passed in the Lok Sabha. Whereas in the countries of the world where the proportion of women representatives is high, no law has been made for reservation, rather many political parties have given reservations to women members in their party. A study by think tank PRS Legislative Research said reserving seats for women in Parliament would limit voters' choice. Instead, reservations for women members within political parties or parliamentary constituencies with two members would be better options.
Female representation
- The average representation of women members in the Legislative Assembly of the states is 9%.
- 13% Rajya Sabha MPs are women
- 42% of women MPs from BJD
- 39% of MPs in TMC are women
- BJP has 14% women MPs
In Sweden and Norway, 46 percent of public representatives are women. 45 percent in South Africa, 38 percent in Australia, 35 percent in France and Germany, and the public representatives are women. In these countries, seats have not been reserved by making laws, but some political parties have made a provision for reservation for women members in their party.
All political parties talk about increasing the participation of women in politics. But the ground reality is far away from this. At present there is only one woman Chief Minister in the country, Mamata Banerjee, of West Bengal. She is the supremo of Trinamool Congress. When it comes to giving tickets to women members in Lok Sabha or Assembly elections, political parties give tickets keeping in mind the probability of the candidate winning. And this is where the participation of women members reduces. Generally, female members of families already established in politics get tickets. Overall, the attitude of all political parties towards increasing the representation of women members has been disappointing.
