Women and Law (optional)
SNDT Women's University · LL.B. Semester 4 · 4044
Unit I — Module I (2 credits): Introduction; Personal Laws and Women
Status of women: global perspective, India (pre- and post-independence) · International concerns and conventions; constitutional provisions relating to women · Personal laws and women: sex inequality in inheritance, adoption and guardianship, marriage and matrimonial remedies
- Status of Women in India — Pre-Independence period, Social and legal inequality, Social
- Personal Laws relating to marriage, divorce, succession and maintenance with special
- Position of Women under International instruments — Salient features of Convention for Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and optional protocols to the Convention
- Constitutional concern — Article 15(3), Article 21A, Articles 23, 24, 28, 29 Article 39
Unit II — Module II (2 credits): Criminal Law, Social Legislation, Employment, Enforcement Agencies
Criminal law: offences relating to marriage; outraging modesty · Social legislation: Immoral Traffic Act; Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act; Dowry Prohibition Act · Women and employment: Equal Remuneration Act, Factories Act, Maternity Benefit Act, Sexual Harassment at Workplace Act · Protection and enforcement agencies: courts, commissions
- Criminal Laws and Women
- Offences relating to marriage
- Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
- 2.1Pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971
- Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
- Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 and Factories Act, 1948
- Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal Act, 2013
- National Commission for Women Act, 1990
- National Commission for Women: Constitution, Role and Responsibilities