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What does Women Reservation Bill mean?
As Wikipedia explains it, Women's Reservation Bill is a pending bill in India which proposes to provide thirty three per cent of all seats in the Lower house of Parliament of India. The Upper House, Rajya Sabha, passed it on 9 Mar 2010.

Arguments in favor of the bill
Those who are in support of this bill makes a point that if the bill becomes an act it would lead to gender equality in Parliament, resulting in the empowerment of women as a whole. They believe that women have been deprived of equality in India, thus increased political participation of women will help them fight the abuse, discrimination, and inequality they suffer from.

Opponents say
Various political parties are against the bill, as they fear that reserving 33.3 per cent seats for women, many of their male leaders may not get a chance to fight elections. The Bill is being opposed by politicians from the socially and economically backward classes. They argue that reservation would only help women of the elitist groups to gain seats, therefore causing further discrimination and under-representation to the poor and backward classes.

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