Women empowerment through participation in politics.

Women constitute an entire half of the population and to move forward by leaving behind an entire half of the population can't be accepted as a plausible, just and sustainable model of nation-building by our policy makers. Women are one of the major stakeholders in every dimension of the society and, hence, it is imperative that they be empowered, educated and uplifted from their present state of affairs to an elevated one. It can be safely stated that political empowerment, through deliberate attempts of reservation in politics and affirmative action by the State, will not only lead to an increase in status and self-esteem of the long subjugated womenfolk, but will also lead to adopting of courses of actions favouring women's needs and issues which, otherwise, in male-dominated decision making bodies are ignored, overlooked, underestimated or met with acrimony. Much talk is being heard about delivery of good governance to the public; and good governance requires gender balance in decision making. It is, now, only a matter of time and effort on part of the State and the civil society to proffer impetus to the subtle revolution of women's empowerment that is slowly running through the social fabric of the nation by compensating the womenfolk for their undue subjugation and giving them their rightful place as equal partners to men in the decision making process, and harnessing the energies of half of the entire population to achieve a world of liberty, equality and fraternity, not only on paper but also in reality.