Abstract :
It is argued that women need to be empowered in the field of political decisionmaking so as to facilitate
their real empowerment. The growing participation of women in elections indicates a silent movement
of women empowerment. There is a growing idea among women that social transformation is much
slower than political changes; hence, they prefer to play a decisive role in elections. The present article
is an attempt to analyze the political and electoral empowerment of women in the Patna district of Bihar.
The first part of the article is an analysis of political empowerment of women whereas the 2 part dwells
upon the study of the spatio-temporal changes in the electoral empowerment of women. Finally, to
analyze the rural-urban differences in the women's political and electoral empowerment. There is a
rising trend in the voting participation of women in the study area but their representation is still very
low. The research is based upon field survey, primary data, and secondary data along with newspaper
reports and articles. The electoral data has been taken from the website of the Election Commission of
India.
Keyword :
Empowerment Spatio-temporal Social Transformation Electoral