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| {{Constitution of India}}
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| The '''Women's Reservation Bill''' or '''The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, 9 th March, 2010''', is a pending bill in the [[Parliament of India]] which proposes to amend the [[Constitution of India]] to reserve 1/3rd of all seats in the Lower house of Parliament of India, the [[Lok Sabha]], and in all sotate [[legislative assemblies]] for women. The seats were proposed to be reserved in rotation and would have been determined by draw of lots in such a way that a seat would be reserved only once in three consecutive general elections.
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| The [[Rajya Sabha]] passed the bill on 9 March 2010.<ref name=ra>{{cite news |title=Rajya Sabha passes Women's Reservation Bill|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-09/india/28137030_1_unruly-scenes-women-s-reservation-bill-constitution-amendment-bill |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811071147/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-09/india/28137030_1_unruly-scenes-women-s-reservation-bill-constitution-amendment-bill |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 August 2011 |work=[[The Times of India]]|date=9 March 2010 }}</ref> However, the [[Lok Sabha]] never voted on the bill.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-09/india/37581570_1_international-women-s-day-women-s-reservation-bill-speaker-meira-kumar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505090251/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-09/india/37581570_1_international-women-s-day-women-s-reservation-bill-speaker-meira-kumar |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 May 2013 |title=Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar calls for women’s empowerment|date=9 March 2013 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=3 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Uproar in India Over Female Lawmaker Quota |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/world/asia/10india.html?_r=0 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=9 March 2010}}</ref> The bill is still pending as it never went to the Lok Sabha.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bill Track- Women's Reservation Bill [The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, 2008]|url=http://www.prsindia.org/billtrack/womens-reservation-bill-the-constitution-108th-amendment-bill-2008-45/|website=www.prsindia.maliniorg|access-date=20 November 2016}}</ref>
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| ==Women's Reservation==
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| In 1993, a constitutional amendment was passed in India that called for a random one third of village council leader, or Sarpanch, positions in [[gram panchayat]] to be reserved for women.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/impact-women-policymakers-public-goods-india | title=Women as Poicy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India | author=Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra, and [[Esther Duflo]] | journal=[[Econometrica]] | year=2004 | volume=72 | issue=5 | pages=1409-43 | publisher=[[The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab]] |access-date=December 14, 2018 }}</ref>
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| There is a long-term plan to extend this reservation to parliament and legislative assemblies.<ref>[http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=134425 Women are seeking 33% reservation in jobs, promotions]</ref><ref>[http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/aug/24spec2.htm Women's Bill: What's the fuss about?] [[Rediff]] 24 August 2005.</ref><ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19980811/22350054.html The reservations business], ''[[Indian Express]]'', 11 August 1998.</ref>
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| ==See also==
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| ; Law in India
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| *[[The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013]]
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| ; Women in India
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| * [[Domestic violence in India]]
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| * [[Dowry system in India]]
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| * [[Female foeticide in India]]
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| * [[Gender inequality in India]]
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| * [[Gender pay gap in India]]
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| * [[Men's rights movement in India]]
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| * [[National Commission for Women]]
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| * [[Rape in India]]
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| * [[Welfare schemes for women in India]]
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| * [[Women in India]]
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| * [[Women in Indian Armed Forces]]
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| * [[Women's suffrage in India]]
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| ==References==
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| ==External links==
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| {{Indian legislations}}
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| [[Category:Reservation in India]]
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| [[Category:Proposed laws of India]]
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| [[Category:2010 in India]]
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| [[Category:2010 in law]]
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| [[Category:Manmohan Singh administration]]
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| [[Category:Women's rights in India]]
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| [[Category:Amendments of the Constitution of India]]
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| [[Category:Identity politics in India]]
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| [[Category:Indian women in politics| ]]
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| [[Category:2010 in women's history]]
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