<span style="color: #222222;">Union Government is trying to provide adequate representation of women in the Lok Sabha as well as in the State Legislative Assemblies.<br />''<br />''In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said with the objective of empowering women as leaders in politics, Centre has been undertaking capacity-building programmes for Elected Women Representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions so that they serve as catalysts for social changes. She said, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, 724 women contested an election, out of which 78 were elected. The present ratio of women representation in Lok Sabha stands at 14.42 per cent.<br />''<br />''Ms Irani said this is higher than 2014 elections in which only 68 women were elected to the Lok Sabha. Similarly, in the Rajya Sabha, women representations stands at 25 as on 20th of this month.<br />''<br />''In the present Council of Ministers, there are six women Ministers.</span><br />