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Right after the International Women??s Day, the Indian Upper House took a great step toward gender equality by approving a bill that proposes an amendment mandating that a third of legislative seats be reserved for women for the next 15 years. The quota bill, despite being a fairly crude way of increasing women??s participation in the state legislature, constitutes significant progress toward the goal of gender equality in India; nevertheless, in the future, similar bills should be refined so as not to lead to corollary discrimination toward other groups...
Despite the possibility of external influence over the elected women??s votes, the quota bill still encourages a long-lasting culture of gender equality. The legislative effects of the quota bill will expire in 15 years, but in that time the bill will allow women??s decision-making power to be present in Indians’ everyday lives, thus helping entrench the concept of gender equality in Indian culture...
Karen A. Narefsky ’11, a Students For Choice member who helped organize the event, said that she hoped the panel raised audience awareness of how environmental factors can affect women??s reproductive health...
Building on the theme of this year’s Women??s Week—“strength through solidarity”—a panel discussion last night held in Harvard Hall examined the link between environmental factors and reproductive health...
...panelists touched on issues ranging from controlling overpopulation to placing power plants in low-income areas, which they said affected women??s reproductive health...