Mysuru: With the State elections round the corner, MYTHRI, the Women’s PG Teachers Association of University of Mysore, as part of their monthly programme, had recently organised a discussion with members and had invited women to speak on the theme ‘Political Participation of Women’. The programme was organised in association with a Bangalore-based NGO Avala Hejje, that works for the empowerment of women.
It was a non political discussion to find out the reasons behind the lack of women participation in the political sphere. This was mainly to hear various voices of women folk about the issue. Members identified several reasons such as lack of education, lack of support from the family, lack of motivation and lack of encouragement as the main factors.
