Abstract

STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIAN SOCIETY

SARVE ANITA ASARAM

Volume: 3 Issue: 3 2013

Abstract:

Though this article is very meaningful, yet a serious difficulty is faced in presenting a picture which could cover all categories of women. Within the Indian subcontinent, there have been infinite variations of the status of women, differing according to the cultural milieu, family structures, caste, class, property right etc. we have to specify as to whether we are talking about rural women or urban women, about middle class or lower class women, about Brahmin or scheduled caste woman, about women in the Hindu society or in the Muslim community. All these distinctions are significant determinants of variations in her position in different groups. This unit, however, because of the limited space, will give a very broad picture of India woman specifying wherever possible the rural-urban difference.

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