The effects of having a female Pradhan on women participation in West Bengal and in Rajasthan can be found in Table 2.
In West Bengal, the fraction of women among participants is incremented 2.92% and this increment is significant. Since the reservation policy did not affect the number of participants, this increment can be interpreted as an increase of the number of female participants against a reduction of men participation. Moreover, there is also a greater number of complaints by women in the last six months.
In Rajasthan occurs something different. Not only the fraction of women among participants has not seen any significant increment but the difference between reserved GPs and the unreserved GPs is negative, nevertheless not significant. The reasons the authors provide in the paper to explain these results are that, in Rajasthan, the reservation policy was lately implemented and the GPs leaders were trained to mobilize women in the village meetings.