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By Sushmita Goswami Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress party (TMC) is all set to retain power in West Bengal, for the third consecutive time. The chances are that India will therefore continue to have at least one female chief minister. The country had started the...
By Vidyaa Ramkumar (guest post) “We would make better leaders. If we can control the finances and home so efficiently, why not a state”? asked the wife of a minister. “Though the number of women voters in Puducherry is high, when it comes to representation of women in...
By Sarita Mohanan Bhama Political parties are in a never-before tailspin in Kerala, flurrying to re-tailor the “women component” in their lists of candidates for the 2021 Assembly elections. The trigger? The State Mahila Congress President, Lathika Subhash, had...
By Swarna Rajagopalan (guest post) Over the years, I have come to bristle and splutter when asked to justify the importance of including more and more women — an equal number, even — in electoral nominations and political appointments. It’s 2021, I want to snap, and...
By Kalpana Sharma The tokenism that now marks International Women’s Day (March 8) has virtually become the norm. Politicians make ritual statements about women’s “empowerment”, the corporates and the retail sector reach out to their “market” consisting of women...