[Women Empowerment] Role of Women in India’s Freedom Struggle

Introduction

The history of Indian Struggle would be incomplete without mentioning the contributions of women. The Sacrifice made by the women of India will occupy the foremost place. They fought with true spirit and unafraid courage and faced various tortures, exploitations, and hardships to earn us

[Women Empowerment] Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in India

Over the past decade, gender equality and women‘s empowerment have been explicitly recognized as key not only to the health of nations, but also to social and economic development. India‘s National Population Policy 2000 has ‗empowering women for health and nutrition‘as one of its crosscutting

[Women Empowerment] Women and Work

1. Nature, Range and Patterns of Women’s Work: Their household work remains mostly invisible and unrecognised. Here it is essential to categorise various types of work done by women in terms of paid and unpaid work. This will give us a broad idea to understand the significance of women’s work

[Women Empowerment] Women's Movements in India

1. Women’s Movement: A Variant of Social Movement= The women’s movement is an important variant of social movements. It is an important but neglected aspect of studies on social movements like tribal and ethnic, peasant and workers, backward classes, cultural and religious movements,

[Women Empowerment] Woman Status in India :Sociological Concept, Family and Women’s Work, Role of Women

1 Sociological Concept

1.1 Gender=“classification of objects roughly corresponding to the two sexes” as well as the properties of these two sexes. Differences in gender relate to socially and culturally determined. Sex is biological whereas gender is sociological, namely, the social meaning we

[Status of Women] Role of Women and Women Organization

• The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over a Past few millenia. India has most ancient pedigreed system of law, about 6000 years old, marked with fluctuating

[Polity] Section 66A of IT Act Scraped by Supreme Court

What is Section 66A of IT Act ?

Section 66A prescribes the punishment for sending "offensive' messages through computers or any other communication device such as a mobile phone or a tablet, and a conviction can fetch a maximum of three years in jail.

[Social Justice] Undertanding Child Rights

Who is a “CHILD”?

• According to international law, a ‘child’ means every human being below the age of 18 years. This is a universally accepted definition of a child and comes from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), an international legal instrument accepted and ratified by most countries.

[Editorial] Is freedom of expression an absolute right?

As the debate over the horrendous terrorist attack on the office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo rages, two divisions, one much larger than the other, are becoming increasingly evident. Interestingly, a thin but firm line has been drawn between them.