by NWMI | Apr 16, 2016 | 2016 Assembly Elections
Meera Vankipuram (Courtesy: Times of India, April 15,2016) Uma Maheswari, the PMK candidate from Srirangam, has been a member of the party since 2006. Inspired by PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss’ campaign for prohibition, she decided to apply for an assembly seat....
by NWMI | May 25, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
The headlines of practically all news reports on the swearing in of Anandiben Patel as the new Chief Minister of Gujarat highlighted the fact that she is the state’s first woman chief minister. However, none of them reported on whether there were any women among the...
by NWMI | May 24, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
“61 women in this Lok Sabha, highest ever” – headline in The Times of India, 17 May 2014. “The 16th Lok Sabha will have the highest number of women members at 61. ‘This is the highest number of women members elected to the Lok Sabha in the history of the country,...
by NWMI | May 21, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
A headline in the Times of India of 17 May 2014, a day after the election results, said: ‘Amma and Didi keep home fires burning’. But the papers didn’t say the same about Naveen Patnaik or YSR or Uddhav Thackeray. Implicit in the use of the term “home...
by NWMI | May 17, 2014 | 2014 Parliamentary Elections
Forget 33 percent, the women who were in the cabinet didn’t get to hold weighty portfolios. “Except for a few politicians, most elected female representatives have a limited or marginal role in important discussions within their political party or within...
