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100 _aDhanda, Meena
245 _aRepresentation for women: should feminists support quotas?
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300 _ap.2969-976
362 _a12 Aug
520 _aJustifications for gender quotas in legislative bodies must move beyond an evaluation of the consequences of such a policy. It is a mistake to think that gender quotas will essentialise or trap women in their identity as women. Different women have been excluded from parliamentary politics in different ways, and it is necessary to devise political measures for their inclusion which take these differences into account. - Reproduced
650 _aWomen in politics
773 _aEconomic and Political Weekly
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