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Women in Indian history have been influential leaders, scholars, reformers, and freedom fighters, from ancient figures like Gargi and warrior queens (Razia Sultan, Rani Lakshmibai, Velu Nachiyar) to modern icons like Indira Gandhi (first female PM) and Kalpana Chawla (first Indian woman in space), showcasing diverse roles in governance, education (Savitribai Phule), science, and social change, challenging narratives of historical confinement.
Gender inequality
gender equality
ABSTRACT: This paper demonstrate notion of gender equality, and its nature as well as status of women in ancient Indian culture. Gender equality between men and women means that different behaviour; aspirations and needs of women and men are considered, valued and favoured equally. But in ancient India specially, in Indus valley civilization, women had a respectable position in society. In early Vedic period, there was plethora of Goddesses to respect for women. In Vedic society women participated in religious ceremony and tribal assemblies. Widows could remarry and child marriages were unknown in society. But, in the later Vedic period, the position of women gradually deteriorated. The period clearly sees the growing tendency to stratify society along gender lines. Women lost their political rights. Child marriage, the system of Sati emerged in the shape of a formal custom during later Vedic period. But in Buddhist and Jain culture women were accorded respect and their rightful place in society.
Indian Women’s Status Through The Ages
That women’s status has consistently been subordinate to that of men in India as elsewhere has been accepted for quite sometime now. Patriarchy and religion have generally been held to be the main culprits for creating this situation. While these two forces played a very significant role and influenced all other factors, the low social status accorded to women is the result also of political, economic, legal and educational and other social determinants.
Indian Women’s Status Through The Ages
Discussion about women’s status, therefore, involves looking at what position they have held in any given society at a given point of time. It varies across place and time because their position is determined by existing social structure and social relationships. Social structure, constituting of patterns of social relationships, is not static and manifests itself in the social change process in any society.
Exploit 2
Abstract
It is a fact that women have been the victims of exploitations since long time in different fields in their life both physically and mentally. There are several causes of sexual as well as moral abuse which are very often highlighted by the media, and a lot of those also remain unexplored. Although, such malpractices to women are not of recent origin, its trace is found in the history of ancient India. While identifying its key reasons, it is realized that the long run supremacy of male over female in all respect in the patriarchal society in India is highly responsible for arresting the empowerment of women. Consequently, they are being trafficked for sex, hackled at workplaces and tortured in family and society. The paper has attempted to find out the faces of women exploitation as an expression of socio-economic disability in Indian perspectives.
Exploit 1
Abstract
It is a fact that women have been the victims of exploitations since long time in different fields in their life both physically and mentally. There are several causes of sexual as well as moral abuse which are very often highlighted by the media, and a lot of those also remain unexplored. Although, such malpractices to women are not of recent origin, its trace is found in the history of ancient India. While identifying its key reasons, it is realized that the long run supremacy of male over female in all respect in the patriarchal society in India is highly responsible for arresting the empowerment of women. Consequently, they are being trafficked for sex, hackled at workplaces and tortured in family and society. The paper has attempted to find out the faces of women exploitation as an expression of socio-economic disability in Indian perspectives.
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