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The women activists did not support Quota till 1974. What led to the subsequent change in their stand?

  • UPSC 2001
  • Social Movements

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Until the mid-1970s organised women rejected reserved seats as a matter of principle. Towards Equality (1974), the report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India, both restated that refusal and cracked it. Over the next two decades evidence, experiment and a new theory of representation turned refusal into demand.

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  • Why they refused
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