{"id":40023,"date":"2019-01-08T17:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T12:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=40023"},"modified":"2019-01-08T17:58:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T12:28:50","slug":"the-feminization-of-indian-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-feminization-of-indian-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The feminization of Indian politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/analysis\/the-feminisation-of-indian-politics-is-an-exciting-phenomenon-of-our-time\/story-ACApfxPIgDjTMAylGNwZhI.html\">The feminization of Indian politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Study shows women legislators in India raise economic performance in their constituencies by about 1.8 percentage points per year more than male legislators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The project studies close elections between men and women for election to India\u2019s state legislative assemblies. It finds significantly higher growth in economic activity in constituencies that elect women.<\/li>\n<li>The study is relevant to the pending proposal to reserve one third of all federal and state assembly seats for women.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance of Raising the share of women in India\u2019s state legislative assemblies.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Better Policy Making<\/strong> &#8211; Better representation of women\u2019s and children\u2019s concerns in policymaking<\/li>\n<li><strong>Higher economic growth<\/strong> &#8211; Research suggests that women favour redistributive politics and, thus, have a tolerance of higher taxes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Less Criminalization of Politics<\/strong> &#8211; Male legislators are about three times as likely as female legislators to have criminal charges. These findings reflect that women are more fair, risk-averse and less likely to engage in criminal and other risky behavior than men.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economic infrastructure<\/strong> &#8211; Evaluation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana shows the share of incomplete road projects is 22 percentage points lower in female-led constituencies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Critical Evaluation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women legislators only perform better than men in non-swing constituencies. In swing constituencies (swing seat is a constituency held with a small majority in a legislative election) where electoral uncertainty is greater, elected men appear to exert more effort to improve economic growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Global Scenario:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than a hundred countries have introduced quotas for women in parliament or in party lists in the last two decades.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of women in parliament worldwide has more than doubled in the last 20 years, standing at 22.8% in June 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feminization of Indian politics News: Study shows women legislators in India raise economic performance in their constituencies by about 1.8 percentage points per year more than male legislators. Important Facts: The project studies close elections between men and women for election to India\u2019s state legislative assemblies. It finds significantly higher growth in economic activity&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-feminization-of-indian-politics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The feminization of Indian politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":118,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}