Women Reservation : how effective will it be?

One cheer for Women Reservation Bill. Not two and surely not three. Of all the reservations we have devised till date to transform the society, this one will transform the least. Nevertheless, it may do some marginal good, so lets not make a total enemy of it.
Rotating constituencies would mean women cannot nurse a constituency. Reservations do not apply to Rajya Sabha creating a parliamentary anomaly. Reservations could mean more upper caste women MPs at expense of backward women. Everything apart, the basic flaw lies elsewhere.

Women suffer from thousands of forms of discrimination at most basic levels. Safety is still a major concern at most of the places. India has highest rates of female anemia and maternal mortality. And the chauvinistic attitude needs to be changed. Even with all talk of modernization, till this date women face a lot of prejudices. Surely Chanda Kochar, Akhila Srinivasan, Ekta Kapoor have done well. Surely, women have brought fame and pride to the nation. But still the fact remains that salary of highest paid women in the world is one third the salary of highest paid male individual. How does that justify the talks of equality?
Million dollar question is will all these factors change with more women in the parliament? Who would guarantee that seven daughters of a certain politician will all not end up being members of lok sabha?
Who would be responsible for equality in most basic terms. We already have multitude of laws for gender equality? And what has happened to those? We already have had dalit reservations for 60 years. What has been the progress? Has anything at all changed?
The need is to implement all this at grassroot levels. And this is the root cause. When we think of implementing a change, we try to implement it directly at the highest level of hierarchy. It would have been a lot better if a bottom up approach would have been taken. We need administrators, polices, judges who will implement laws on social justice. And most of all we need awareness and dedication to really implement the change. Before that happens, the bill would not be successful in its venture.