{"id":3978,"date":"2019-04-17T14:50:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:28","slug":"women-in-the-2019-indian-elections-are-they-the-silent-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/04\/17\/women-in-the-2019-indian-elections-are-they-the-silent-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in the 2019 Indian elections – are they the silent majority?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the\u00a0Times of India\u00a0<\/a>women are likely to be the silent ‘majority’ as female turnout is predicted to be higher than men’s.
\nCarnegie Endowment also has an interesting blog post discussing this<\/a>, as does\u00a0Asia Dialogue.<\/a><\/p>\n

However according to the IPU t<\/a>here are far fewer women candidates (only 8.1% in 2014). See the situation and compare with other nations in 2019 using their\u00a0recent infographic.<\/a><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Indian government statistical office<\/a>\u00a0also has some data you can download on women’s participation in the Lok Sabha.
\nFor some discussion of the barriers women have faced try this\u00a0articles<\/a>\u00a0from the Economic and Political Weekly made available via the\u00a0Centre for the study of developing societies website<\/a>
\nThe\u00a0IGC has also discussed the link between female politicians in India and Economic Growth<\/a><\/p>\n

Search for more resources on\u00a0shodhganga, the\u00a0Indian dissertations and theses website<\/a>
\nIPU has abstracts of journal articles on their\u00a0bibliographic database.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the\u00a0Times of India\u00a0women are likely to be the silent ‘majority’ as female turnout is predicted to be higher than men’s. Carnegie Endowment also has an interesting blog post discussing this, as does\u00a0Asia Dialogue. However according to the IPU there are far fewer women candidates (only 8.1% in 2014). See the situation and compare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[41,115,59,242,99],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-india","tag-politics","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}