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Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality through Political Participation of Women in Legislative Bodies: an Experience from India

Author(s) Triveni Tyagi, Suraj Minz
Country India
Abstract The 5th goal of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDG) is aiming at achieving gender equality throughout the globe while encouraging and facilitating the empowerment of women in every corner of legislative bodies. On the broader objective of UN-SDG, India being a signatory has initiated a number of proactive steps to realize this vision. India, since its independence has taken a wider initiative for ensuring the fundamental right to equality in every sphere including equal opportunity in political representation and leadership. The State leaders realized the fact that less number of women is visible in the political leadership position and their representative roles in the decision-making bodies were found negligible as compared to males. Therefore, the paper includes various issues and problems that are acting as hindrances to the goal to be achieved. The paper shall try to provide appropriate recommendations for improving women's leadership skills with a number of policy options
Keywords Political Participation, Sustainable Development Goals, Political Representation, Fifth SDG, Gender Equality, Leadership.
Published In Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April 2024
Published On 2024-03-25
Cite This Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality through Political Participation of Women in Legislative Bodies: an Experience from India - Triveni Tyagi, Suraj Minz - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 2, March-April 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i02.15654
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i02.15654
Short DOI https://doi.org/gtn3t6

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