Rachnatmak Mahila Manch backed 26 candidates in Almora’s Salt block to cleanse panchayat politics of the practice of husbands playing proxy and running the show for their wives.
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The ‘woman card’ in Odisha politics
By Rakhi Ghosh The Biju Janata Dal (BJD), the leading regional party in Odisha, has been continuing with its 2019 promise of reserving 33 percent seats for women candidates for Lok Sabha elections. It is also one of the first states in the country to implement 50...
Road to Parliament remains tough for women in Gujarat
By Rupa Mehta Despite headlines about progress in Gujarat, women are still not represented in Parliament of state legislature For Gujarat, “freedom” of women has been a matter of pride, evidenced by people often repeating, “Here, women can go to dance garbha during...
The Madonna/Whore Complex in Indian Politics
The Madonna/Whore complex is a Freudian concept which describes the way many men tend to see women: as either saintly mother figures or immoral and debased women. Female politicians in India are often subjected to this binary perception.
Will women’s time ever come in Indian politics?
By Sweta Singh International Women's Day (IWD) is around the corner and all the customary manels that routinely discuss politics and policies in India will no doubt soon begin to remember that women and other excluded genders need to be made visible – at least until...
KR Gouri – A trailblazer many times over
By Leena Gita Reghunath The most iconic female politician that Kerala has ever known, KR Gouri, is no more. She left us on May 11, 2021, wrapped in the red communist flag that she loved, stamped with the hammer, sickle and star. Born into an Ezhava Dalit family that...
What Two Important Studies Tell Us About The Lives of Indian Women in Politics
By Editors Two important reports related to gender equity and participation in economic and public life can shed some light on what women politicians face in the battlefield that is the political arena in India today. The 28-point downgrade of India’s ranking in the...