Role of Women and Women's Organisation-Part 3

The role of women and womens movements were discussed in the previous two parts of this article.

Role of Women and Women's Organisation-Part 1

Role of Women and Women's Organisation-Part 2

WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT

During the freedom movement, the struggle for Women’s right and equality was seen as an integral part of the struggle for national Independence. Many women who fought for the country’s freedom were also active on the issues of women’s rights. In 1885 the Indian National Congress was founded. In its 1889 Bombay Session, ten women participated. With the spread of women’s education among middle class by the last part of the nineteenth century, several women became active in the social and political life of India. Gandhiji’s call to women and large scale participation of women in India’s freedom movement brought about changes in the perception of nationalist leaders.

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Role of Women and Women's Organisation-Part 2

Having discussed the role of women in Indian society in Role of Women and Women's Organisation-Part 1 we will discuss the womens organisation and movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Social movement has been defined as an organised effort by a group of people either to bring or resist change in the society. Women’s movement is an important variant of social movement in the sense that it aims to bring changes in the institutional arrangements, values, customs and beliefs in the society that have subjugated women over the years.The reform movements of nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focused on women’s issues. The Brahmo Samaj, Prarthana Samaj and the Arya Samaj played important role in projecting women’s issues in a wider context.Womens organisation and participation in the national movement was exemplary.In the post-Independence period constitutional provisions and social legislations for women, planned economic development and social change affected women’s movement significantly.During the 1970s and 1980s occured the resurgence of women’s movement in India.

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Role of Women and Women's Organisation-Part 1

Gender :

The dictionary meaning of gender is “classification of objects roughly corresponding to the two sexes” as well as the properties of these two sexes. While discussing the differences between the sexes we generally focus on biological and reproductive functions, but differences in gender relate to various other attributes, which may be socially and culturally determined. In other words Status of Women sex is biological whereas gender is sociological, namely, the social meaning we attribute to it.

Role and Status:

Very simply, role tells us about what is expected from an individual in a particular situation, while status deals with her or his expectations arising out of that situation. To put it another way, a role deals with duties and obligations while status deals with rights (but not necessarily legal rights).

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