Devaki Jain on the Women’s Reservation Bill

Devaki Jain, What We Women Want, Tehelka Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 24, Dated Jun 20, 2009.

Development economist Devaki Jain defends the Women’s Reservation Bill in its present form, saying, “The impact of the women’s quota at the panchayat level hints at what the Women’s Reservation Bill can do.”

With this, the PSW Weblog will begin a long overdue series of posts logging important discussions of the proposed Women’s Reservation Bill and its provisions.

Women in Iran’s 2009 election campaign

Read the BBC report on the Power of women in Iran’s election (June 10, 2009) even as we wonder about the election outcome.