Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Women in the 2019- Indian elections - are they the silent majority?

According to the Times of India women are likely to be the silent 'majority' as female turnout is predicted to be higher
Carnegie Endowment also has an interesting blog post discussing this
as does Asia Dialogue
However according to the IPU there are far fewer women candidates only 8.1% in 2014
see the situation and compare with other nations in 2019 using their recent infographic.

The Indian government statistical office also has some data you can download on women's participation in the Lok Sabha
For some discussion of the barriers women have faced try this articles from the Economic and Political Weekly made available via the Centre for the study of developing societies website
the IGC has also discussed the link between female politicians in India and Economic Growth

Search for more resources
on shodhganga.  Indian dissertations and theses website
IPU has abstracts of journal articles on their bibliographic database









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