{"id":58569,"date":"2023-09-21T13:42:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T04:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/21\/india-lower-house-women-quota-law-vote-one-third"},"modified":"2023-09-21T20:48:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:48:42","slug":"indias-lower-house-votes-to-reserve-a-third-of-seats-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58569","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s lower house votes to reserve a third of seats for women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed law aims to improve representation in a parliament where women hold only a little over 13% of seats<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s lower house of parliament has passed a bill to reserve a third of seats for women, almost triple the current number, in a move that could transform Indian politics.<\/p>\n<p>More than 27 years after it was first proposed in parliament, the women\u2019s reservation bill was given almost unanimous support by MPs in the lower house, with only two voting against it. Its passage through the upper house is expected to be smooth thanks to broad political support.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/21\/india-lower-house-women-quota-law-vote-one-third\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed law aims to improve representation in a parliament where women hold only a little over 13% of seatsIndia\u2019s lower house of parliament has passed a bill to reserve a third of seats for women, almost triple the current number, in a move that coul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58592,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58569\/revisions\/58592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}