Empowerment of Women through Political Participation in India

Abstract

In today’s time, the issues related to women’s well-being and legal rights became a political concern. Many social and political groups have tried to raise the attention of the government toward the issues of women. However, regardless of these efforts, such issues seem not to be attended adequately. Such behaviors of the government have led to many social feminist movements, where women openly raised their voices to address such issues and demanded equal rights in society. In a country like India, on one hand the goddess is a woman and on the other hand she is ill-treated, oppressed, suppressed, and exploited by the males of our society. The United Nations report states that “woman constitutes half of the world population, perform nearly 2/3 of works hours, receive one tenth of the world’s income and own less than one-hundredth percent of the world’s property.” One of the major problem’s which women are dealing today is with the political participation. Not all women are given the equal rights in the society to choose their desired candidate or stand in elections or go for election campaigns or even be associated with political parties. This paper analyzes the participation of women in politics and also analyzes whether or not women’s voices and demands are articulated to the public as matters of importance.