Women leadership reservation boosts aspirations of Indian girls
Washington, Jan 13 (ANI): Reservation for women in leadership
positions in Indian villages is having a positive role model
effect and has changed the way young girls and their parents
think about female leadership, a new research has said. The
study, conducted by Northwestern University, focused on the
long-term outcomes of a law that reserved leadership positions
for women in randomly selected village councils in India.
Results show that affirmative action laws can help create
positive role models by opening opportunities that were
previously unavailable to a group. "India is definitely a place
where women are constrained in their opportunities," said Lori
Beaman, an assistant professor of economics at the Weinberg
College of Arts and Sciences, and a faculty fellow at the
Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern. "This law gave
Indian women, at the village level, a chance to demonstrate that
they are capable leaders," she said. The research