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Comment: Women empowerment in India and its impact on democracy.

  • UPSC 2000
  • 20 marks
  • Social Movements

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In the 2024 Lok Sabha election 65.78% of women electors voted against 65.55% of men — only the second time women out-voted men nationally. If empowerment is, in Naila Kabeer's sense, the expansion of women's capacity to make strategic choices, its clearest Indian expression is political. It has broadened Indian democracy's participatory base and reshaped…

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  • An uneven empowerment
  • Impact on democracy
  • 1. Participation: a "silent revolution"
  • 2. Representation: presence and its effects
  • 3. Agenda: responsiveness — or clientelism?
  • 4. Deliberation: widening the public sphere
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion
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