Status Of Women In India

INTRODUCTION:

In Indian family, women’s view has unendingly remained high theoretically. Powers of God have been described in women forms as Laxmi, Saraswati, Durga, etc. Thus, woman has been considered a symbol of wealth, knowledge and strength. married woman has been called ‘Ardhangini’ (half part of body) and motherhood has also been given a capacious respect. Mother is the symbol of Nationality also, which gives us impression of women’s status, high than men’s status. But the prefigure of grief is that, in spite of all this, women’s status in India has forever and a day remained lower than men’s status. Practically, although during various bounds certain ups and downs in it were visible. During the pre-Vedic and Vedic periods, the status of women is same and at some point higher than men. But from post-Vedic period its downward flow of gradational deterioration started and continued till the end of medieval period and the women quietly suffered throughout.
During the British regime in the 19th and twentieth Centuries, owing to the contacts with modern society, intellectual class of Indian society intensively realized the in mercifule and unjust fact of secretion with women. Through social reform movements and social legislations, efforts were made to rectify the status of women.



Along with women’s participation in freedom movement, women’s movement also got started and consequently the condition changed. In independent India for more improvement of women’s status, welfare insurance policy was formulated and various programmed were chalked out. Indian Constitution guarantees full equality between the men and women. Government is very active in all the main directions, i.e. health, education, occupation, welfare, etc. and for achieving targets, plenty of money and human energy are spent. Owing to all this efforts, women’s status has improved to some extent. But even after discharge such a long period since independence, due to various...If you penury to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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