Question 19GS2GS2
Women often form the backbone of grassroots movements in India, yet they remain largely invisible and excluded from the decision-making process. Examine.
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2Structural barriers to rise: - By muscle & money power concentrated with males (3) Dual burden: - Even if participate in public life, private life is still responsibility of women (4) Resistance from males manifested in violence: - eg Sexual assault of (5) Symbolic concessions given while withholding real power of decision making: - eg Panchayat Raj syndrome. (6) Women face the brunt of 'intersectionality' and 'matrix of domination': - eg Dalit caste, gender, homemakers dispute such reasons which exclude women from decision making, we have progressed in form of SHG, lakhyati suklis, PRIs of Chari Rasti, Internet → Increased autonomy for mobilization? - eg Me Too
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Topper
Suvan Sharma
AIR 1482025
Subject & Paper
GS2GS2
Topic
Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections - Performance, Mechanisms, Laws and Institutions
Women's Social Capital
Women in Grassroots Movements and Decision-Making
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108
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