ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses, again mainly relying on published sources as Chapter 6, the ways some sections of Nepali women were consistently more marginalized even within ‘Nepali women’ through the country's history of developmental exercise and what efforts are being made to turn the situation around. Among multitudes of marginalized women in Nepal, two categories positioned at the intersections of gendered and caste/ethnic-based peripheries are dealt with here: indigenous ethnic minority (Janajati) and caste minority (Dalit) women. Though each category contains admittedly broad range of diversity, some common threads of predicaments experienced by each category of women, along with their current efforts to overcome their marginalization, are exposed. Their efforts so far have rather narrowly focused on their ‘proportional representation’ in various fields (especially in electoral politics) through reservation. Whereas their public representation was enhanced to some extent, there remains a lot to get done to achieve their ‘inclusion’ in the fullest meaning of the term.
