Legal Rights of Women in India

J K Sujatha, C Basavaraju

Abstract


Woman the Prosperity, Women the Slave, Women the Mistress, Women the temptress, but never woman an individual, a person and a human being. She is still fighting for her rights. Our Indian Constitution confers various constitutional rights to women in India. Along with the Indian Constitution various other laws which are in force in India also gives various legal rights like educational right, property right, equal right, and so on. Even after all these rights development of women cannot be made easily, unless the woman succeeds in Education, Economical, Social, Cultural and Psychological development. The purpose of this paper is to identify the provisions laid down in the Indian Constitution and various other Acts in India for the protection of women. This paper is divided into four parts in which First part is consists of various Constitutional Provisions, Second part consists of other legal provisions under various Acts in India, Third part consists of Role of Judiciary in protecting the Rights of Women in India, Fourth part consists of International Convention on protecting rights of women.


Keywords


Rights, Judiciary, Elimination of discrimination, Inadmissibility, Feminism.

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