Status of Women’s in India: Constitutional-Legal Perspective
- Country : India
- Subject : Political Science
Keywords : ignored, constitution, legislations
Abstract
Though women constitute nearly half of the Indian population, but they are ignored socially, politically and economically. The issue of women is one of the most challenging and alarming issues in today’s changed global context, not because they are well protected and well secured but because they are more and more battered and tortured day by day. The evidence is clear everywhere that the voice of women is being increasingly heard in the streets, courts and Parliaments, and even largely published in daily media. Yet issues concerning women are not given priority in society.However, it is necessary to understand the socio-political movement in India because these movements have had a great impact on the women’s life in India. At the dawn of Indian history, the Vedic women possessed high status. This soon became legendary and the women were sinking deeper in economic dependence, religious taboos and social subservience and were treated as second class mortals. The Constitution of India has ensured equal status to all. But the basic question is that how far we have been able to achieve the objectives provided by the Constitution and legislations. In view of this paper has used secondary sources of data. Descriptive research method has been mainly used in this study. The main objective of this paper is to analyse how different sections of the constitution and legal provisions can be used to improve the empowerment or status of women.
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