THE ROLE OF WOMEN REPRESENTATIVES IN THE LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT (PANCHAYAT RAJ)

ABSTRACT

Many nations still deny women the ability to control her fertility, own properties, get education, apply for credit, earn money, or work outside the house. They continue to be notably underrepresented in social or domestic decision-making. Clearly, empowering women via small income-generating ventures is inadequate to improve their chances of leading high-quality lives. The World Bank recognizes highlighted empowerment as a major component of reducing poverty and as a key objective of development aid. The Bank has also prioritised gender mainstreaming in its development support and is now putting an ambitious plan into practise. It is argued that social fairness is a crucial component of human wellbeing and is hence fundamentally worthy of pursuit, and that women’s rights is a method to other objectives in order to promote female equality as a development aim. Gender equality is noted as a development goal in and of itself in a current policy research paper through the World Bank, among instance, as well as a method of fostering growth, reducing poverty, and fostering good leadership. At various high-level international meetings over the last ten years, policy declarations have been presented that express a similar twofold justification for promoting women’s empowerment.

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