AN ANALYSIS OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN INDIA: SOME SUGGESTIVE MEASURES

Bindia Rani

Vol. 3, Jan-Jun 2017

Abstract:

Indian society is a male dominated society where men are always assumed to be superior to women. The women in India have to face discrimination, injustice, and dishonor at every stage of their lives. The Constitution of India not only grants equality to women but also empowers the State to adopt measures of positive discrimination in favor of women for neutralizing the cumulative socio economic, education and political disadvantages faced by them. But despite every effort from various stakeholders like government, society, NGOs the crime reports against women in India are increasing day by day at an alarming rate. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) had also put a concern on the growth rate of crime against women in the last few decades. The present paper discusses the implementation of women’s rights in India and how all the fundamental rights given to the Indian women are being violated, by citing the various crime done against them in India. Further, the strategies for the empowerment of women identity have also been evolved for the complete growth of the country. The state occupies a central position in initiating policies that aim to end discrimination against women. In India, after a lot of debate inside and outside parliament, the state initiated the first reform measure by reforming the Hindu Succession Act in 1956 which provided the women an equal right to inheritance. Continuous extensive unconditional financial as well as emotional assistance must be provided to the women by both the formal set-up of the state like the legal system, police, medical and health care sectors etc, as well as from the informal networks such as family, friends, fellow citizens, and local community groups.

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