Gender Equality and Participation in Policy Making

The book deals with gender equality and participation in policymaking with special reference to India and Afghanistan. Gender inequality is the most persistent and pervasive global problem of the 21st century militating against the attainment of sustainable development in patriarchal societies. Thus, the book focused on analyzing how society perceives the concept of gender equality, participation, and women empowerment, factors that militate against the achievement of gender equality in society and its role in sustainable development. Basically, in this book, we have studied policies and review quality research papers on the topic of gender equality and participation in policymaking with special reference to India and Afghanistan. And the source of information gathers based on secondary information and interprets gathered information on basis of the websites of government and organizations in India and Afghanistan. The findings of this book indicate that gender equality has positive economic consequences in decision-making, it improves gender participation in community development programmes and leads to healthy families and increased food productivity.