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News: Female voter turnout percentage is found to be increasing in many recent elections.
Does this change hold any significance?
Government welfare schemes are showing greater empathy for women voters, and women voters are also rewarding those parties. For example, Both Jayalalithaa and Nitish Kumar can credit their long terms as CMs to their female voters.
However, these changing trends are not reflected in the proportion of women entering politics or getting tickets to fight elections to assemblies and Parliament. This change is required
Source: This post is created based on the article “Message in turnout“, published in the Times of India on 8th March 2022.
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