Women are demanding 33% of India's Parliament seats - right now they're at 11%

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Length: 0:29:22
Uploaded: 3 Aug, 2009

Recording Date: 1 Aug, 2009
Recording Location: Calcutta, Bangalore, Srinigar, Vancouver
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Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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Program Title: WINGS #14-09 Women and the Indian Elections
Description: In the May 2009 election, women candidates won a greater percent of the time than men, but few could get party tickets to run. The heralded bill reserving women's seats has been stalled for a dozen years.

Host(s): Frieda Werden, Kalpana Pradhan, Indu Ramesh.
Featured Speakers/Guests: Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, leader of the ruling coalition, United Progressive Alliance, and President of the Congress Party; Kalpana Pradhan, reporter, Calcutta, West Bengal; Indrani Sinha, women's activist; vox pops: ex-school principal and university student; Mrs. Brinda Karat, MP from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPIM]- a member party of the Left Front coalition party; Mrs. Shyamali Gupta, Women Leader of CPIM West Bengal; Mrs. Koyeli Roy, organizer, National Alliance of Women's Women's Parliament; Indu Ramesh, radio producer, and Prathibha Nandakumar, an editor of a national newspaper, in Bangalore, Karnataka; Nusrat Ara, reporter, Srinigar, Indian-administered Kashmir.

Credits: Produced by Kalpana Pradhan, Indu Ramesh, Nusrat Ara, and Frieda Werden (also series producer).

Comments: Longer than usual WINGS programs - sorry, ran out of time to cut! If you need to, shorten the credits after "email wings@wings.org."