399 words essay on the position of woman in india

The constitution of India is the Magna for the women of India. For them, the centuries of slavery are over. Indian womanhood is on the march. They are coming into their own. Today women enjoy equal Status with men.

In Vedic times women occupied the highest place in society. They were given all opportunities to develop themselves, socially, intellectually and morally. They could choose their own partners of life according to their own wishes.

They were given thorough education, including military training. But in the middle Ages, she fell from her pedestal. Her position became inferior. She began to be regarded as a plaything of man, a decoration of the drawing room, and a slave of man’s passions and a dumb-driven cattle. She lived behind the purdah, and had no rights to education and property.

But the woman in free India enjoys perfect equality with man. She is no longer a slave. She is no longer at the mercy of man. She has a voice in shaping the destiny of the nation.

We have women in different roles as administrators, ambassadors, governors, doctors, teachers, officers, educationists and even in defense services. They are proving good administrators. They are cool- headed and dispassionate. They have on their side brain, beauty and personality. They are sweet, soft and peace-loving.

In a free India, she has the right to vote. In any election, women comprise 50 per cent of the voters. This gives women half the voice in the government of the country. There are women legislators and women ministers.

The Hindu Succession Act has given to sisters the right to property along with their brothers. The Hindu Marriage Act has given them the right of divorce. Our constitution has done away with all distinctions based on religion, race or sex.

She is entitled to hold any post that a man can. She can become a Deputy Commissioner, an I.A.S. or an I.P.S. Even the army is no longer the monopoly of man. There are women pilots.

Today woman’s future is as bright as her past has been dark. Women have shown their worth as leaders and administrators, and time is not far off, when India will have at the helm of affairs women who will lead the country from strength to strength. In future, she may lead men as Joan of Arc led the French soldiers against the enemies of France.