Assistant Professor of
“Achieving the goal of equal participation of women and men in decision making will provide a balance that more accurately reflects the composition of society and is needed in order to strengthen democracy and promote its proper functioning… Without the active participation of women and the incorporation of women's perspectives at all levels of decision-making, the goals of equality, development and peace cannot be achieved. This was the statement given by the Secretary General of United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, in the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995: Article 181. With the Indian Women constitution half of the Population of India she lacks basic access to political representation. She has no say what so ever in the political agendas made for “her benefit”. The 73rd and the 74th Constitutional Amendment have only payed lip service to the objective of political empowerment of women in India. The author tried to portray the reality between the objectives and the goal of political empowerment of women in India.
