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dated May 2,1953: Equal Rights for Women

India's permanent representative to the United Nations, Rajeshwar Dayal, signed in New York on behalf of the Government of India the Convention of Political Rights of Women. The Convention said that women shall be entitled to vote in all elections on equal terms with men, be eligible to be chosen to all elective bodies, be entitled to hold public offices, and exercise all public functions on equal terms without gender discrimination. Mr. Dayal said India had consistently stood for equal rights for women in all fields — political, social and economic — without discrim+ination, and added,"it is with particular satisfaction that my Government has signed this Convention. We have, however, made one minor reservation regarding employment of women in the armed forces. This is natural as the women of India are devoted to the arts of peace and not to the arts of war. Our Constitution guarantees to women full and equal rights. In the 1952 general elections, more than half of the electorate of 176 million were women, and more than half of the 107 million votes cast were by women."

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