WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA

We have seen the declaration of the year 2001 as the year of women empowerment.The pages of history unfold the fact that all social and political movements and even great revolutions had bypassed women.Gandhiji brought women to the centre stage of the National Movement.Today women power is a hidden treasure that we are discovering and utilising for the benefit of the Nation. Once when Smt. Sarojini Naidu submitted to the British Rulers a petition for granting poltical rights to Indian Women, she was asked a question,"Will Indian men support your demands?". Today Indians are supporting the movement for women's empowerment. We have already empowered women at the panchayat, block and district level democratic institutions. They have made an impact on the working of our democracy at the grass root level in the society.

It is our duty to carry forward this process of empowering women to the state Legislatures and to the Parliament. The responsibility of the women of India in this matter is clear. The empowerment of women in politics wil be unavoidable and it might well save the democratic polity of India from the deterioration of standards and values it is experiencing today.

The economic roles of women as producer and as consumer combine in unpaid labour at home. The society assigns her the role of wife and mother. As a consumer, she acts as the purchasing agent for family, buys the raw materials she uses in household production. Neither as a producer, nor as a consumer does she have the freedom of choice allotted to a man. In India 92 % of women workers are already engaged in unorganised sector. They are the worst hit, at preent, in the era of Globalisation, in the competition for jobs. The development path we have adopted is hurting them and threatening their existence. the gender based segementation and perception of women, as "Auxilliary" work force shall be redressed. It is at this point parity between the relationship between men and women should be evolved, so that the institutional reforms will not further widen the inequalities.

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