书目名称 | Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh | 副标题 | Institutional Reform | 编辑 | Pranab Kumar Panday | 视频video | | 概述 | The volume combines policy and gender issues in a single study.It explores the relationship between institutional reforms and women’s political participation in Bangladesh.It offers interesting insigh | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women’s political participation in Bangladesh. The discussion is set against the background of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, in Beijing, in which a Platform for Action signed by heads of governments expressed their countries’ commitment to achieve ‘gender equality and empowerment of women’ through ensuring integration of the gender perspective at all levels. In Bangladesh, notable among the initiatives undertaken was the enactment of the Local Government (Union Parishads) (Second Amendment) of 1997, through which one-third of seats were reserved for women in the Union Parishad (UP) and the system of direct election was introduced to elect women members in reserved seats. The Act of 1997 is considered to be a milestone, since it has enhanced women’s participation in the local government politics significantly. Against this background, the specific research questions that have been addressed in this volume include: the necessity of reform for enhancing women’s participatio | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | 关键词 | Local governance in South Asia; Local government reforms; Policy reforms in Bangladesh; Women‘s politic | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1272-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-81-322-1733-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-81-322-1272-0 | copyright | Springer India 2013 |
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