Abstract
The history of the world shows that women have been considered far behind than men in almost all societies. Although half of the population of almost every country consists of women but even then they don’t have their due share in policy making and decision making bodies of their respective countries. Rather policy making has been considered as no go area for women for centuries even in most modern countries. Male oriented and patriarchal system is one of the basic factor of deprivation of women from their fundamental human rights including political rights as well. Some other factors are also responsible for less political empowerment of women in third world countries including Pakistan. Women face a number of obstacles like family and society restrictions, lack of education, typical house hold duties and above all the lack of awareness from their fundamental human rights. Although the basic condition to run a democracy successfully is that decision making centers (legislature) 283 should have proportional representation from all segments of society irrespective of gender but unfortunately all over the world “women voice” is not up to the mark or according to their total strength. Same is the situation in Pakistan. The research paper will focus that what efforts have been made to grant women their due share in legislative bodies of country by giving them system of reserved seats and what are the short coming of this system.
Ms. Ghazala Farah ., Dr. Adil Zaman Kasi . (2019) SYSTEM OF RESERVED SEATS OF WOMEN IN PAKISTAN AND ITS SHORTCOMMINGS, Balochistan Review, Volume 1, Issue 1.
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