Women in the Lok Sabha: With fewer of them in House, burden of representation on woman MPs increases
While the number of women candidates for the Lok Sabha elections consistently increased in the last three parliamentary polls even and the number of women MPs rose since 2014 — it declined marginally compared to 2019 — Election Commission (EC) data of the last three Lok Sabha elections show that the turnout of women voters this time was the lowest and that women parliamentarians now have to represent more women.