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Chapter At A Glance
- In any democratic system, people can politically express their views and many a times it becomes necessary to express its views.
- Gender and politics both are closely related. Women's participation is very much necessary in politics but it is very less in case of our country.
- Division of labour on the basis of gender is very common in the world and it is coming on from the ages that women used to do household works and males are used to do work out of the house.
- Many feminist movements were started which had raised their voice in favour of more participation of women in all spheres of life.
- Woman had to face many discriminations in our country like less education, less pay for equal work, wish to have son which leads to abortion of girl child.
- Women's participation in politics of our country is very less. All the times not more than 10% women are elected in Parliament and this rate decreases to 5% in case of state legislative assemblies.
- Women have legal reservation in local self bodies i.e. panchayatas and municipalities. 33% of the total seats of local self bodies are being reserved for women.
- Religious diversity is fairly widespread in the world today. For example India has a number of religions. Some of these religions were started in India and some were started out of India.
- Communal politics is very common in countries like India where a number of religious groups are there. Leaders try to take advantage of religious diversity and creates tension among different religions which leads to communal riots.
- Communalism takes many forms in India like religious prejudices, majoritarian dominance, political mobilization on religious lines, communal violence, etc.
- Our constitution has given a status of Secular State to our country because our country has many religions and dominance of one religion can lead to communal violence.
- Caste, in our country, plays a very important role in politics. India is a society which is divided on the basis of caste and people are very much influenced by caste system. So politicians try to take advantage of this situation.
- Politics also influences caste system and caste identities by bringing them into the political area.
- Our political leaders always try to promote any particular caste to increase their vote bank based on caste.
Important Terms & Their Explanation
- Caste Hierarchy : Ladder of castes which is based on status of higher and lower castes.
- Occupational Mobility : Moving of a person from one place of another for occupation or changing occupation.
- Urbanization : Moving of humans from villages to cities due to a number of factors including economy, occupation, etc.
- Family Laws : Laws made to deal with family matters like inheritance, marriage, adoption, etc.
- Religious Diversity : Country where a number of religions exist have religious diversity.
- Sexual Division of Labour : Division of different works on the basis of sex or a system in which all the homely functions are done by women of the family through the domestic helpers.
- Feminist : A male or female who believe that equal opportunities and rights should be given to men and women.
- Patriarchy : Patriarchy is the rule of father or domination of males or it is a system whose head is the father or eldest male of the family.