Women in the Constitution
4 sentencesBus fifteen keeps three seats for women and kids.
Women · Children (kids)=Art 15(3) — the State may make special provisions for women and children · 15(1) bars discrimination
Livelihood for thirty-nine families
Livelihood, resources and equal pay=Art 39 — (a) means of livelihood for men and women alike · (d) equal pay for equal work · (e) workers’ health not abused
Maternity ward number forty-two
Maternity relief and humane conditions of work=Art 42 — basis of the Maternity Benefit Act; paid leave 12 → 26 weeks from 2017 (12 from the third child)
Nani split one hundred and six laddoos into three parts.
Nari Shakti Vandan — one-third seats for women=106th Amendment (2023, assent 28 September) — Lok Sabha, State Assemblies, Delhi Assembly; within SC/ST seats too · starts after delimitation on the first census after 2023, for 15 years · not in the Rajya Sabha or Legislative Councils
51A(e) — renounce practices against the dignity of women (Fundamental Duty) · 243D / 243T — at least one-third of seats in panchayats / municipalities · 39A free legal aid · 300A property · the first women’s reservation bill was the 81st, 12 September 1996; passed by the Rajya Sabha in 2010, then lapsed.