2 Constitution & Welfare of Weaker Sections · 2.3 Women: issues and laws

2.3.1 Status of women: patriarchy, reform-era laws, 'Towards Equality', sex ratio, CEDAW and Beijing

Women's status in India has been shaped by patriarchy, by nineteenth-century reform laws and twentieth-century personal law reform, and by data such as the sex ratio; the 1974 "Towards Equality" report and the UN's CEDAW and Beijing framework set the modern agenda.

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Key terms

  • patriarchy
  • gender
  • Simone de Beauvoir
  • Ann Oakley
  • Sylvia Walby
  • brahmanical patriarchy
  • Uma Chakravarti
  • sati 1829
  • widow remarriage 1856
  • Sarda Act 1929
  • Hindu Code Bills
  • Towards Equality
  • CSWI
  • Phulrenu Guha
  • sex ratio
  • child sex ratio
  • NFHS-5
  • CEDAW
  • Beijing 1995
  • women's organisations
  • Kandukuri Veeresalingam
  • Durgabai Deshmukh

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  6. Common trapsFoundation
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