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Is Reservation for women justified?

Pradeep Biradar
. Update: Apr 3, 2018 11:00 am
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In Favor:-

There exists a gender gap in literacy levels even now, especially in rural areas. Reservation for women will encourage girl education.
Reservation in public transport and public places prevents physical abuse & eve teasing.
As still boy child is being preferred to be educated by poor families, reservation in jobs for women bridges this gap.
Reservation in jobs helps in empowerment of women and make them economically independent which indirectly helps in improving the economic condition of family.
Political reservation for women is a justification of democracy itself and helps in improving the condition of women in society as women can address well the problems faced by them in society.
Reservations provide opportunities for women to participate in nation building and development of society.

Against:-

Reservation for one gender is against gender equality.
It’s a wrong generalization. In a case where a boy from poor background and a girl from a wealthy family are competing, reservation for women have no relevance.
Giving reservation to women means again pointing out that they are less capable and cannot compete with the other gender.
There are many women in politics as well as in other fields where they achieved success without any reservation.
There are chances of misuse of the reservation by women candidates in education and job sector.
There are chances that reservation for women in politics leads to the entry of women from political background but not the common women and thus inturn encouraged family politics.

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Facts:-

In ancient days, there were few kings who accompanied by their life partners in war and also used to take their help in ruling the kingdom.
Now, there is a reservation for women for many government jobs and educational institutions.
‘Women’s reservation bill‘ seeking reservation of women in parliament was passed in Rajya Sabha on 9 March 2010, but never get voted in Lok Sabha and it was lapsed after dissolution of 15th Lok Sabha in 2014.
In 1993 an amendment was passed which reserved one third positions of village council leader, or Pradhan, positions in gram panchayat for women.

Situation in Other parts of the World:-

India is not the only country encouraging women through reservations, around 40 other countries in the world have different reservation quota for women.
The percentage of reservation for women in few countries is as follows.
Nepal = 33%
Pakistan = 17.5%
Bangladesh = 3%
Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden = 50%.

Conclusion:-

Reservation for women has not lost its relevance because there exists a gender gap even now. But steps must be taken to avoid its misuse, by linking it to the social status of the family.

Afterwords :- What is your opinion on this topic? Express your thoughts in the comment section below.

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5 Comments

Jitendra yadav, Oct 15, 2018 @ 5:44 pm Reply

I support women reservation in education but i don’t support in politics because today in politics women reservation is misused by her husband ,father-in-law and relatives.many examples are available like Rabri devi’s seat is misused by Lalu prasad yadav and in panchayat election we see misuses of women reservation in politics. But in other field women must be given reservation.
Akhil R Nair, Sep 20, 2018 @ 9:26 pm Reply

Indian armed forces giving womens of our nation to prove themselves that there is no need of gender gap . In a transformational move, the Indian Army is all set to open up combat positions for women, a gender barrier broken by only a few countries globally. Recently we seen India’s Navy all six women crew of INSV Tarini who completed India’s first all-women circumnavigation expedition of the globe. Also the Indian airforce starts inducting women officers as fighter pilots.
Tinku paul, May 25, 2018 @ 7:24 am Reply

According to me nowadays womens are everywhere they are holding most of the designated post , army ,nevy ,BSF, Pilot even in space research .Man and woman both are working together, they are equally intelligent and educated , they are sincere, punctual . Sometimes they are intelligent than man. They are economically independent don’t need to depend on others, if there is any untoward incident happens. But still we are living in the male dominated society if there is no reservation system then many places women they will not get the chance. Govt many sector reserved for woman candidate, in this case man want or does not want they have no choice.In politics some of the post reserve for woman candidate ,if there is no reservation then woman will not get chance,so reservation is justified but should not misuse.
- Team GD Ideas, May 28, 2018 @ 7:41 pm Reply
  
  That’s right Tinku! Reservation helped in improving women’s presence in every field.
Kamalkanta Roul, Mar 17, 2018 @ 11:04 pm Reply

my opinion go against the reservation process instead of it give better educational facility to women,, give them various skill teaching and solicit them in sports and games