ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the role of reserved seats women legislators' in the Parliament of Bangladesh. It focuses on the impact of reserved seats types of quota on both descriptive and substantive representation of women and analyzes the factors that influence the process of substantive representation of reserved seats women legislators. The chapter compares the substantive representation of both directly and indirectly elected women MPs in promoting women's issues as well. In Pakistan, as available evidence shows, reserved seats women in the National Assembly of Pakistan represent women far more effectively than the general seats women legislators. They have moved and supported a large number of bills that deal with women's rights and issues. However, qualitative and quantitative comparisons of Pakistani and Bangladeshi women parliamentarians indicate that the former have voiced women's issues in larger numbers and submitted more women-related bills than the Bangladeshi women legislators.
