Women in Indian and Pakistani Politics: Reservation Policy and Quotas versus Human Development

• Authors: Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska

Abstracts

EN

This study compares the measures that serve women’s numerical presence in politics in India and Pakistan. Based on the selected indicators of women’s human development, the paper also outlines the socio-economic and cultural conditions under which these measures operate. Drawing mainly on the primary sources coupled with Indian and Pakistani movies, the paper concludes by exposing the gap between an average woman citizen and a woman politician that exists in both countries regardless of quotas and reservation policy.

Keywords

EN

women in politics; quotas in Pakistan; reservation policy in India; women’s human development

• Publisher: Collegium Civitas
• Journal: Zoon Politikon
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 5-26

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska

• Collegium Civitas w Warszawie

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Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/2543408XZOP.19.001.10560

Biblioteka Nauki

2046456