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{{Short description|Proposes to reserve a minimum of 33% seats for women in Parliament}}
#REDIRECT [[Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam]]
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{{Constitution of India}}
The '''Women's Reservation Bill''' or '''The Constitution (108th Amendment) Bill, 9 th March, 2010''', is a bill passed in the [[Parliament of India]] which says to amend the [[Constitution of India]] to reserve 1/3 of all seats in the lower house of Parliament of India, the [[Lok Sabha]], and in all state [[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.
 
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 lapsed since it was still pending in Lok Sabha and the Lok Sabha expired during this two times in 2014 and 2019.
 
==Women's reservation==
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 Policy 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]] | doi=10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00539.x | hdl=1721.1/39126 |access-date=December 14, 2018 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>
 
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>
 
==See also==
; Law in India
*[[Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013]]
 
; Women in India
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* [[Domestic violence in India]]
* [[Dowry system in India]]
* [[Female foeticide in India]]
* [[Gender inequality in India]]
* [[Gender pay gap in India]]
* [[Men's rights movement in India]]
* [[National Commission for Women]]
* [[Rape in India]]
* [[Welfare schemes for women in India]]
* [[Women in India]]
* [[Women in Indian Armed Forces]]
* [[Women's suffrage in India]]
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==References==
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[[Category:Reservation in India]]
[[Category:Proposed laws of India]]
[[Category:2010 in Indian law]]
[[Category:2010 in law]]
[[Category:Manmohan Singh administration]]
[[Category:Women's rights in India]]
[[Category:Amendments of the Constitution of India]]
[[Category:Identity politics in India]]
[[Category:Indian women in politics| ]]
[[Category:2010 in women's history]]

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