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    Women in modern India have gained greater rights and freedoms compared to ancient and medieval periods. They now have voting rights, rights to inheritance and property. However, women still face discrimination and challenges. It is important to continue empowering women through education, career opportunities, and celebrating their successes. Overall, the status of women has improved in India but further progress is still needed to achieve full equality and independence.

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    Women in modern India have gained greater rights and freedoms compared to ancient and medieval periods. They now have voting rights, rights to inheritance and property. However, women still face discrimination and challenges. It is important to continue empowering women through education, career opportunities, and celebrating their successes. Overall, the status of women has improved in India but further progress is still needed to achieve full equality and independence.

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    Women in modern India have gained greater rights and freedoms compared to ancient and medieval periods. They now have voting rights, rights to inheritance and property. However, women still face discrimination and challenges. It is important to continue empowering women through education, career opportunities, and celebrating their successes. Overall, the status of women has improved in India but further progress is still needed to achieve full equality and independence.

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    Women in modern India have gained greater rights and freedoms compared to ancient and medieval periods. They now have voting rights, rights to inheritance and property. However, women still face discrimination and challenges. It is important to continue empowering women through education, career opportunities, and celebrating their successes. Overall, the status of women has improved in India but further progress is still needed to achieve full equality and independence.

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    Status of

    Women
    in
    Modern
    India
    What is the status of Women in modern
    India?
    On August 14, 1947, India and Pakistan gained independence from British rule

    Women gained considerable importance


    within their country in social and political spheres

    Today, women enjoy voting rights, right to inheritance


    and property

    there is utilization of modern, scientific, technical


    and innovative methods in the implementation of tasks and activities
    How are YOU empower women
    around you?
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    Support women Provision of good

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    through their quality education
    journey for everyone

    Celebration
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    acquisition is

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    woman and her
    extremely
    success
    important
    Therefore, there are number of factors that
    signify that improvements have taken place in
    the status of Women in modern India.
    But it is necessary for them to be informative
    in terms of ways to reinforce their status.
    Changing status of Women in India today
    ● The status of women—social, economic,
    political, and general—in India today is
    much higher than in ancient and medieval
    periods. Women today enjoy many more
    rights—social and legal—and have greater
    freedom and voice, and participate more
    freely in public affairs.
    ● But it is also true that they are still
    discriminated, harassed, humiliated,
    dominated and even ex­ploited.
    The laws pertaining to women’s employment are:

    The change in the status of women got further impetus after


    independence because of the enactment of new laws (Special
    Marriage Act, 1954, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, Hindus
    Succession Act 1956 and Anti Dowry Act 1961)

    Fac­tory Act, 1948

    Employees State Insurance Act, 1948 and


    Maternity Benefit Acts.
    Other factors which affected women’s status were: effect of
    education, leadership provided by educated elite women,
    increasing op­portunities of employment, change in the
    rigidity of the caste system, and so on. The need for linkage
    between programmes oriented to women and national policy
    towards weaker sections has come to be increasingly real­
    ised.
    Thus, if we were to describe the woman of contemporary times, we could
    give her following characteristics:

    (1) She has struck a perfect balance between tradition and modernity.

    (2) She seems to be determined to try and prove to man that she is equal to him.

    (3) While earlier, a woman has had an identity always through a male (either she was known as
    somebody’s daughter or wife or mother) and her plight was like a satellite that kept orbiting
    around one planet—the man, today she has an opportunity to shine independently and reflect
    an identity of her own.

    (4) She is no longer confined to ortho­dox beliefs, capitalises on her own potentials and merits,
    and has carved a notch for herself that was once forbidden by society.

    (5) She has begun to take responsibility and decisions for her life rather than just playing wife’s
    and mother’s roles. Her aptitudes and skills are slowly breaking down all chauvinistic barriers.
    Taking the general status of women in contemporary society, it may be averred
    that:

    (1) There is more representation of women in parliament, vidhan sabhas, panchayats and
    Nagar Nigams (municipal corporations). There are more women entrepreneurs, more
    bureaucrats, more profes­sionals, more managers and more administrative officers.

    (2) Rural women are still traditional, deeply ritualistic, and fiercely conservative in their
    behaviour, but urban women are fighting the real battles of life. Of course, in the urban areas,
    there are women who belong to lower middle class and work as housewives, teachers, nurses,
    clerks, stenographers, tele­phone operators and also women of lower classes who work as
    labourers, domestic maids, sweepers and rag-pickers, etc. for whom life hasn’t changed
    much. They are still subdued in our society. They are still not economically emancipated from
    men.
    In social, psychological and moral dimensions also, their
    situation is not identical to that of men. When they start their
    career as adults, they are evaluated by the society with a
    differ­ent perspective.

    Since only a few women escape from the traditional feminine


    world and since they do not get from society nor from family
    the assistance they need to become in concrete fact the equals
    of men, they fail to get recognition as successful role-
    performers.
    Thank
    You!

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