Haryana’s Women Carve a Larger Role in The State’s Politics
In Haryana, a state with a skewed sex ratio (913 girls to 1000 boys, an improvement from 830 girls in 2011), there is one gender indicator …
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Women Hold Fewer Ministerial Positions In State Governments
Telangana, the newest state in Southern India, finally has women ministers in the state’s council of ministers for the first time in its history. In a …
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Krishnaveni’s Story And The Era Of Women Panchayat Presidents
Thalaiyuthu panchayat, Tirunelveli district (Tamil Nadu): P Krishnaveni remembers the night of 13 June, 2011, clear as day. Barely 200 m from her home of 15 …
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First Time Adivasi MP Hopes To Be The Voice Of People
Goddeti Madhavi (26), the first time Member of Parliament (MP) from Araku in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) knows the trust that her constituents …
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The Triumph Of Sharmila Devi And Tamil Nadu’s Women Leaders
Thirumanvayal Panchayat, Sivagangai District (Tamil Nadu): Sharmila Devi (39), the youngest dalit sarpanch of Thirumanvayal panchayat in southern Tamil Nadu’s Sivagangai district, has pulled off what none …
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Meagre Funds, No Salary: How Tamil Nadu’s Women Leaders Still Succeed
Nachangulam Panchayat, Sivagangai district (Tamil Nadu): What is it like to do a full-time job without a salary? Especially if you are a dalit or an adivasi …
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Why Muthukanni, A Dalit, Had To Build Her Own Panchayat Office
Madhavakurichi Panchayat, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu: It wasn’t personal ambition that drove K Muthukanni to stand for election as panchayat president from Madhavakurichi in Mannur block of …
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Tamil Nadu’s Women Leaders Live, Work In The Shadow Of Violence
Urapakkam (Kancheepuram district), Tamil Nadu: Even by normal standards of violence in Tamil Nadu’s panchayat politics, the events of March 29, 2001, were troubling. Menaka, 35, the …
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Why 277,160 Women Leaders Remain Invisible To Tamil Nadu’s Political Parties
Chennai: Salma (50), the deputy secretary of the women’s wing of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), is among the few women to have made the transition from …
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Why Ashubi Khan’s Pioneering Run Ends Today
Mewat (Haryana): Ashubi Khan, 51, is distraught. A decade of trailblazing work done by this tall, soft-spoken sarpanch (village chief) and her team of seven illiterate women–and three literate …
