A relevant question that arises is as to what are factors which are responsible for bringing about this change in the attitude of the women. The first factor of great significance of course is female education. Since the time of partition of India in 1947 female education.
This has created consciousness among the women. This has been supplemented by social legislation undertaken by the governments in India after independence. Child marriage has been banned and widow re-marriage is no longer illegal. Decades and Sati systems have been stopped. Women have been given right to divorce.
All India Women’s Conference National Council on the Status of Women etc. are some of the organizations which to champion the cause of women.
Then is political consciousness of franchise to the women but has also treated both sexes at per with each other in so far as political life is ‘concerned. Women can contest elections to State Legislatures and Parliament.
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They can and have discharged efficiently their duties as Governors, Ambassadors, Chief Minister and even as Prime Minister. This has made them conscious of their capacities and they demand more and more right in social life. But of all these factors, am the greatest factor which has contributed its awakening women and demanding more and more rights is the spread 01 education.