Chapter 1: Introduction; Nizam Ahmed
Chapter 2: Alangkar or Ahangkar? Reserved-Seat Women Members in the Bangladesh Parliament;Nizam Ahmed and Sadik Hasan
Chapter 3: Women in Parliament—Entering the Public Male Domain in Bhutan; Sonam Chuki
Chapter 4: Deepening Democracy in India: The Role of Women Parliamentarians and Their Challenges; Sangita Dhal and Bidyut Chakrabarty
Chapter 5: Women in the Parliament: Changing Gender Dynamics in the Political Sphere in Nepal; Punam Yadav
Chapter 6: Who Speaks for Women in Parliament? Patriarchy and Women MNAs in Pakistan; Nusrat Jahan Chowdhury
Chapter 7: Gender Inclusive Governance: Representation of Women in National and Provincial Political Bodies in Sri Lanka; Imiya Kamala Liyanage
Chapter 8: Balancing Work and Family: Women in Bangladesh Civil service; Nishat Afroze Ahmed and Ferdous Jahan
Chapter 9: Women in the Bhutanese Bureaucracy; Kunzang Lhamu
Chapter 10: Women in Civil Service in India;Shivani Singh
Chapter 11: Limits of Inclusion: Women’s Participation in Nepalese Civil Service; Narendra Raj Paudel
Chapter 12: Women in Pakistan Civil Service; Nighat Ghulam Ansari
Chapter 13: Women in Administrative Service in Sri Lanka; M.A.F Anwara Nilmi and Darshi Thoradeniya
Chapter 14: Women’s Representation and Participation in Local Government in Bangladesh: New Openings and Remaining Barriers; Maheen Sultan
Chapter 15: Proxy or Agency? Women in Rural Local Government in India; Prakash Chand
Chapter 16: Gender and Local Governance in Pakistan; Nasira Jabeen and Umm-e-Farwa Mubasher
Chapter 17: Testing the Politics of Presence: Women’s Representation in Local Government in Sri Lanka; Imiya Kamala Liyanage
Chapter 18: Does Inclusion Matter? Women in Governing Institutions in South Asia; Nizam Ahmed.