✅Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development and Panchayati Raj has recommended for empowering elected women to remove ‘Sarpanch Patis’.
✅ World Economic Forum (WEF) will consider the participation of women at panchayat level to rank countries in its future global gender gap reports
✅ Women & men in India report 2022- 46% elected representatives at panchayat level are women.

▪️Problems faced by Women ERs :

✅ Low financial and digital literacy.
✅ Lack of adequate information about their rights and responsibilities.
✅ Inadequate managerial experience.
✅ Social barriers placed by traditional orthodox and parochial society etc.
✅Key recommendations
🔸 Training and capacity building to curb prevalent concepts like Sarpanch Pati or Pradhan Pati (husbands )
🔸 Financially empower women
🔸 Bring attitudinal change in both men and women.