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Areas to Focus on Women in India have traditionally been in charge of house-hold duties - gathering firewood, bringing up children, cooking, sewing etc. This leads to greater interaction among women of the locality themselves, with elders and younger ones of the family, with the environment and with the domestic animals of the house. The framework for their development has thus revolved around this context.
Performance Analysis The status of Women in India today is certainly better than it was in 19th and early 20th century. Still there is some way to go before we can conclusively say that India has become a gender equitable society. Large portions of India in East and central India suffer from great illiteracy among Women (overall figures for India stands at around 66%, less than 76% for men). It is no surprise that these are also the regions with the minimum development in the last half century.
Technology has led to the unfortunate development of Gender-Selection techniques that create grossly lopsided societies in the north western states of Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab. That this practice exists across classes is a cause for concern and reflection on the status of women in these regions. The legislative enactments of PRIs via 73rd amendment should have acted as a watershed for women’s representation in governance but shoddy implementation at various places has belied that promise. The 1/3 reservation for women in parliament is still awaiting to be enacted. The Judicial sphere has acted mostly in favour of Women’s development with progressive interventions like Vishakha Guidelines on Sexual Harassment, Shah Bano judgement etc. The track record of India in social, legislative and judicial sphere on the issue of Development and Women has thus been blunted by the pushback from conservative sections on the plank of Religion and Customs. Going forward the biggest reform measures would have to come from within religion and conservative sections themselves so as not to invite criticism of asymmetrical state or civil society intervention.
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