Abstract

In India there persists a striking gender gap in political participation and representation, despite several decades of targeted policy interventions. Women’s political participation is important not only on normative grounds of inclusion, but because we know that when women do participate, politics changes. This article seeks to deal with the participation, function and role of elected women representation in Haryana mainly in local politics. An attempt is made to assess the women's participation and their activities in politics at the grass-root level by analyzing the voting behaviour, member of political parties, campaigning activities, attending meeting, contesting election, objective for contesting election, factors inspired to join politics, decision making involvement, independency in work, discussion and agenda, problems faced by women during convening the meeting, main hindrances in the way of women’s politics, position in political parties, working hours, self-respect, political experience, accessibility of information and knowledge of political activities and Acts etc. The data relating to women participation and their activities in the political process of the selected respondents are collected in the present study.

Key words: Women Empowerment, Political Participation etc.