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Women in India represents nearly 50% of the total population yet has mere 12% representation in parliament . Though India embarked on a journey of universal adult franchise even after 5 decades the statistics show that the political equality has not transformed into social and economic equality for women in India.

♤ Visibility is taken for tokenism, an oft quoted example is that women sarpanches survive because of the sarpanch pati or beta .

♤ HDI report ranks india 132 out of 148 countries on gender inequality index.

♤ Female labor participation is mere 29% as compared to 80% of men.

♤ Women ownership is still 4% whereas 73% of food production is done by rural women.

The above statistics are disheartening but it cannot be ruled out completely that reservation do not have a positive impact on status of women in the society.