Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

Feminism and Women Empowerment in India: A movement in the making

Dr. Harapriya Samantaraya

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In contemporary Indian society women empowerment could be assumed as a product of history of the struggle of women against patriarch. Their marginalized position in society reveals the ownership and change in property relations that remain directly proportional to the degree of empowerment and autonomy. However, a woman is to be known from the ethnic cultural background to which she belongs. It’s also presumed that the withdrawal of women from the process of production leads to decline of women’s self-esteem   that leads to a shift from ide price to dowry denigrating her position in society.. The paper is based on secondary sources of published data. It has been treating three types of societies: the tribal, the agrarian rural and the Urban industrial and tries to show the position of women and its subsequent transformation. It is ascertained that the patterns of women autonomy vary considerably across tribal, rural-agrarian and urban-industrial women in terms of decision making power in selecting mate, spending money, obtaining health care and keeping dependent parents in law. No act, law and rules can transform unless it has a public proclamation. The feminism as a movement is in nascent stage, it needs many more attempts to ing change in the male mind set and women assertion for cause of equality and empowerment

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Dr. Harapriya Samantaraya, Feminism and Women Empowerment in India: A movement in the making, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-7, ISSUE-1, JANUARY-2018

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