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Paper Title
A Study on Status and Challenges of Women in the Institutions of State Legislative Assembly in Orissa: From 1952 to 2014
Authors
Dr Susmita Patnaik
Abstract
When one looks at the history of the last 100 years and the leaders and news makers, we would be hard pressed to find women. Why is that? I can understand 200 or even 300 years ago. But I have heard so much that women have come such a long way. Obviously they have not come far enough. The Indian Constitution not only grants equality to women, but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favour of women. Empowerment is one of the key factors in determining their success. Though women form a sizable part of India’s population, their political representation and participation is definitely below the mark. The fact that women are grossly under represented at the political level in Central and State government, is a testimony to lack of political power in the hands of women. In this paper attempt is made to analyze the women representation in assembly elections in Orissa from 1952 to 2014.
Keywords- Political participation, women empowerment, reservation, Assembly elections, political activism,
Publication Details
Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1701105Page Number(s) - 673-680Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 1 | March 2017DOI (Digital Object Identifier) - Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)
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Dr Susmita Patnaik, "A Study on Status and Challenges of Women in the Institutions of State Legislative Assembly in Orissa: From 1952 to 2014", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 1, pp.673-680, March 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1701105.pdf
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