Status of Women in India — Pre-Independence period, Social and legal inequality, Social

Look at the nameplates on a Mumbai society notice board and you will still see Mr and Mrs followed by one name. For a long time the law worked the same way: a woman's rights were folded into her father's, then her husband's. Today a girl in your batch votes, owns property, argues in court and contests elections in her own name. How did that change come about, and which Articles of the Constitution carry it? That is the question this topic answers.

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Women entered the Constitution in 1950 as equal citizens, after a century of social reform, legislation and a nationalist promise made at Karachi in 1931; the text is equal, and the law since has worked to make practice match it.

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