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Has the 73rd Constitutional Amendment empowered women in panchayats in India? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2017
  • 15 marks
  • Grassroots Democracy

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Naila Kabeer (Development and Change, 1999) defines empowerment as the expansion of people's ability to make strategic life choices where that ability was earlier denied, and splits it into resources, agency and achievements. Read through her lens and Hanna Pitkin's distinction between descriptive and substantive representation, the Amendment's record is graded: it secured presence, widened…

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  • Resources: presence secured
  • Agency: real but uneven
  • Achievements: bounded by a weak institution
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