\u00a0When 181 women get ’empowered’ to enter parliament society as a whole will benefit, Planning Commission member Syeda Hameed said here Monday.<\/p>\n
‘All eyes are riveted towards India’s parliament now. The thing to be kept in mind is that by asking for 33 percent reservation, we are not asking for a favour because when 181 women will be in the parliament, the society as a whole will benefit,’ Hameed said at the release of a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report on gender equality in Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n
‘I was telling Mohini Giri (founding chairperson of National Commission for Women), that after a struggle of 20 years, we are finally seeing this day,’ she added.<\/p>\n
UNDP administrator Helen Clark, who released the report, said: ‘There is a big gap in women’s representation in higher political power in many places. In this context, I have been monitoring the developments in the media on the one-third reservation of women in the Indian parliament’.<\/p>\n
Holding out huge newspaper cuttings on the subject of the women’s reservation bill, Clark said: ‘As suggested by the report, political reforms is very important. More women in politics wil ensure that women’s issues will get more importance and the society will benefit’.<\/p>\n
According to the UNDP report ‘Power, Voice and Rights- A Turning Point for Gender Equality in Asia and the Pacific’, the region contains the second lowest percentage of women parliamentarians in the world.<\/p>\n
‘The Pacific sub-region alone has four of the six countries in the world with no woman legislators. Only about one-third of Asia-Pacific countries have a gender quota in place for parliament,’ Clark said quoting the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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