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Binda Pandey, Kathmandu University School of Education, Lalitpur, Nepal

Abstract

Nepal has gone through powerful people’s movement-II in 2006, which abolished 238 years long monarchy and established republican Nepal. One of the major demands of the movement was inclusion, participation and social justice for all to mainstream the marginalized groups, which compose majority of the country population based on gender, class, ethnicity and geographical location. But, the reality is that even within each group of marginalized population has almost equal number of women, who has been left far behind of men within the group.

The constitution of Nepal demanded through constituent assembly since 7-decades has been promulgated in 2015. Through this process, the political rights including major economic social and cultural rights (ESCR) have been institutionalized. Further course is proper enforcement of these. From a feminist perspective, several issues are at stake, but this paper deals only with the issues of mainstreaming women in the decision making process, since the state has already committed for proportional women participation in its all structure (Art. 38) and make sure one-third women in all elected body as critical mass (Art. 84-8, 176-9, 222 & 223) including political parties. Based on this reality, my article has been prepared as case study of women participation in Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) to see its policy and women’s quantitative participation in the different level of the organography and allocating opportunity in the state mechanism.

Keywords: Women; participation; decision-making