Chapter 1: Introduction; Nizam Ahmed.- Chapter 2: Alangkar or Ahangkar? Reserved-Seat Women Members in the Bangladesh Parliament;Nizam Ahmed and Sadik Hasan.- Chapter 3: Women in Parliament—Entering the Public Male Domain in Bhutan; Sonam Chuki.- Chapter 4: Deepening Democracy in India: The Role of Women Parliamentarians and Their Challenges; Sangita Dhal and Bidyut Chakrabarty.- Chapter 5: Women in the Parliament: Changing Gender Dynamics in the Political Sphere in Nepal; Punam Yadav.- Chapter 6: Who Speaks for Women in Parliament? Patriarchy and Women MNAs in Pakistan; Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury.- Chapter 7: Gender Inclusive Governance: Representation of Women in National and Provincial Political Bodies in Sri Lanka; Imiya Kamala Liyanage.- Chapter 8: Balancing Work and Family: Women in Bangladesh Civil service; Nishat Afroze Ahmed and Ferdous Jahan.- Chapter 9: Women in the Bhutanese Bureaucracy; Kunzang Lhamu.- Chapter 10: Women in Civil Service in India;Shivani Singh.- Chapter 11: Limits of Inclusion: Women’s Participation in Nepalese Civil Service; Narendra Raj Paudel.- Chapter 12: Women in Pakistan Civil Service; Nighat Ghulam Ansari.- Chapter 13: Women in Administrative Service in Sri Lanka; M.A.F Anwara Nilmi and Darshi Thoradeniya.- Chapter 14: Women’s Representation and Participation in Local Government in Bangladesh: New Openings and Remaining Barriers; Maheen Sultan.- Chapter 15: Proxy or Agency? Women in Rural Local Government in India; Prakash Chand.- Chapter 16: Gender and Local Governance in Pakistan; Nasira Jabeen and Umm-e-Farwa Mubasher.- Chapter 17: Testing the Politics of Presence: Women’s Representation in Local Government in Sri Lanka; Imiya Kamala Liyanage.- Chapter 18: Does Inclusion Matter? Women in Governing Institutions in South Asia; Nizam Ahmed.

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Nizam Ahmed is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. His previous books include Public Policy and Governance in Bangladesh (2016), and Parliaments in Asia (co-edited with Lord Norton, 1999).

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