Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal tabled the historic bill in the upper house and called it “a bill towards women empowerment.” BJP president JP Nadda and Congress party president Mallikarjun Kharge engaged in a heated argument in Rajya Sabha over the implementation of the bill. The reservation bill was passed in Lok Sabha on Wednesday with an overwhelming majority, 27 years after it was first presented in the parliament.
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), doubling the percentage of women in the workforce could boost India s growth rate from 7.5% to 9% and raise the country s GDP to $700 billion by 2025.
translation: the women who dared to step outside | their home were called characterless. now they are breaking out, helped by migration and education. almost two out of every ten families, that s an estimated 45 million families, are headed by women in india. the proportion of women who are more educated than their husbands has been really rising. and these women want their daughters to dream. translation: i saw my mother change and i thought, i can also become like her. i ve been meeting some of the women who have now become the head of their families and asking what impact it will have on the 1.4 billion people that now live in india.