She Leads is a unique leadership virtual training programme designed to support aspiring women political leaders across all backgrounds to enter politics and run for office at state and national levels in India. With the support of the Chevening Alumni Project Fund (CAPF), the training for the first cohort of women leaders is being conducted by Stree Shakti-The parallel force, in collaboration with the Indian School of Democracy and Shakti.
She Leads is a Joint initiative of Stree Shakti - The Parallel Force, Indian School of Democracy and Shakti co-founded by Hemakshi Meghani - dynamic organizations dedicated to political empowerment. So while Indian School of Democracy is a non partisan organization with a mission to nurture principled political leaders focusing on making political representation more value driven, inclusive and equitable, Political Shakti Founder Tara Krishnaswamy is a citizen’s collective campaign for increased women’s representation as MLAs and MPs.
Although women constitute approximately half the population, worldwide figures on the representation of women in leadership and their participation in Parliaments remains low. As of November 2018, 24% of all women national parliamentarians across the world were women, a 13% increase from 1995 (11.3% women parliamentarians). India has 14 percent of elected women representatives in the national parliament, only ahead of Sri Lanka (5.3%) and Maldives (4.7%).
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