NEW DELHI: Here's an area where India is in contradiction with the global trend. While more women worldwide are making the decisions in parliaments and laws that determine, in India, growth in the number of female legislators has been virtually flat. Here are the numbers. Globally, there has been a 75% increase in the number of women parliamentarians in the seven years between 1995 and 2012. But India, where our male parliamentarians have persistently vetoed all attempts to carry on the reservation for women in Parliament, in a period of 11 years between 1991 and 2012 its presence has increased slightly from 9.7% to 10 , 96%.
According to the Report on the Millennium Development Goals 2012, published by the United Nations, while 11.3% of seats held by women worldwide in 1995, the number had increased to 19.7% in 2012 . Despite 15 general elections, India's number is much lower.
As in November 2011, India, the world's largest democracy, has only 60 women representatives of 544 members in Lok Sabha, while there are 26 women MPs in the Rajya Sabha 241 members. According to data published by the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), India ranks 98 in the world for the proportion of parliamentary seats held by women.
MDG Report of the United Nations Millennium adds that although the number of countries with women as head of government head of state or both more than doubled since 2005 in absolute terms the number - 17 - remains quite modest. The percentage of women ministers worldwide has improved only slightly, from 14.2% in 2005 to 16.7% in 2012.
Worldwide, the most common ministerial portfolios held by women ministers have tended to be in social affairs, family and youth, women's issues and education. According to the UN, the use of special measures or quotas were an important factor in helping women to enter parliament. Of the 59 countries that held elections in 2011 to lower or single houses, 26 had implemented special measures for women, and electoral quotas were used in 17. When quotas were used, women took 27.4% of the seats compared with 15.7% of the seats in the country without any fee.
According to the Report on the Millennium Development Goals 2012, published by the United Nations, while 11.3% of seats held by women worldwide in 1995, the number had increased to 19.7% in 2012 . Despite 15 general elections, India's number is much lower.
As in November 2011, India, the world's largest democracy, has only 60 women representatives of 544 members in Lok Sabha, while there are 26 women MPs in the Rajya Sabha 241 members. According to data published by the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU), India ranks 98 in the world for the proportion of parliamentary seats held by women.
MDG Report of the United Nations Millennium adds that although the number of countries with women as head of government head of state or both more than doubled since 2005 in absolute terms the number - 17 - remains quite modest. The percentage of women ministers worldwide has improved only slightly, from 14.2% in 2005 to 16.7% in 2012.
Worldwide, the most common ministerial portfolios held by women ministers have tended to be in social affairs, family and youth, women's issues and education. According to the UN, the use of special measures or quotas were an important factor in helping women to enter parliament. Of the 59 countries that held elections in 2011 to lower or single houses, 26 had implemented special measures for women, and electoral quotas were used in 17. When quotas were used, women took 27.4% of the seats compared with 15.7% of the seats in the country without any fee.
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