What Do Indian Women Want from This Election?
They’re Voting in Historic Numbers. But It Might Not Make Them Happier or More Prosperous
Since April 19, the day general elections began in India, voters have queued up outside polling booths, braving a muggy, scorching heatwave. The mood appears mostly upbeat. Voters talk to TV news reporters. They articulate wishes for change or belief in the incumbent leader.
This year’s election is the largest, and longest, in India’s 60 years of increasingly fragile democracy. Nearly a billion people are eligible to vote, in seven phases, over 44 days.
In voting thus far, women have outnumbered men in several states, and have made up nearly half of …
