In many countries women have liberated themselves by mean of education and by acquiring skills, eliminating prolonged struggle of discrimination and injustice created by an exaggeration of biological differences. Here or elsewhere, women have to fight among others against the discrimination of men and the monopoly of power.
Women constitute nearly 50% of population in India. Women are the pivot around which the whole family revolves in Indian society. Women are regarded as goddess of power, prosperity and learning. Over the ages the women’s place in the society was determined by needs, ideas, dream and aspiration of man. He only determines norms of behaviour, the way she should live, conduct herself in society and the things she should sacrifice for the well being of family members. Earlier women were confined to domestic area only. Her place in society was known as daughters, wife and mother. Presuming for her protection and welfare, this domination and suppression denied her contact with external world and condemned her to domestic tragedy thus making her status lower in the society.
Now Indian women have put their foot in varied areas and have made a remarkable name and identity for themselves in the society. Some have entered the political arena, some are flying planes and others are entrusted the responsibility of running MNCs. They are on par with men in terms of their economic standing. Woman’s status today has undergone a drastic change from what it was in the past.
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