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Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh : Institutional Reforms, Actors and Outcomes / by Pranab Kumar Panday

Publisher	(New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer)
Year	2013
Edition	1st ed. 2013.
Authors	*Panday, Pranab Kumar author SpringerLink (Online service)

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00166919		Springer Humanities, Social Sciences and Law eBooks (電子ブック)	9788132212720

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XVIII, 204 p : online resource
Notes	Chapter 1: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 2: Conceptual Discourses -- Chapter 3: Local Government Reform Efforts: A Perspective of Women’s Political Participation -- Chapter 4: Government and Political Parties in the Reform Process -- Chapter 5: Other Players in the Reform Process: Accessing and Assessing Influence -- Chapter 6: Elected Women Members in the Union Parishad: Representation without Participation -- Chapter 7: Conclusion This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women’s political participation in Bangladesh. The discussion is set against the background of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, in Beijing, in which a Platform for Action signed by heads of governments expressed their countries’ commitment to achieve ‘gender equality and empowerment of women’ through ensuring integration of the gender perspective at all levels. In Bangladesh, notable among the initiatives undertaken was the enactment of the Local Government (Union Parishads) (Second Amendment) of 1997, through which one-third of seats were reserved for women in the Union Parishad (UP) and the system of direct election was introduced to elect women members in reserved seats. The Act of 1997 is considered to be a milestone, since it has enhanced women’s participation in the local government politics significantly. Against this background, the specific research questions that have been addressed in this volume include: the necessity of reform for enhancing women’s participation in politics; the context against which the Government of Bangladesh enacted the Act and the reasons such an initiative was not taken earlier; the actors behind the reforms and their role in the reform process; and the impact of the reform on the state of women’s participation at the local level in Bangladesh HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1272-0
Subjects	LCSH:Sex LCSH:Public administration LCSH:Political science LCSH:Sociology FREE:Gender Studies FREE:Public Administration FREE:Political Science FREE:Sociology
Classification	LCC:HQ12-449 DC23:305.3
ID	8000012213
ISBN	9788132212720