Women Through Ages

The social position of women through the ages has beendeplorable. The social norms were against their normal development and it becomedifficult for them to build of their personality in a better way. But there werea few social reformers who happened to play a significant role for thesocio-economic development of women. They also began to realize about theirdeficiency and this indeed led to their development in the post-independenceera. This book deals with the subject in detail with focus on aspects such as theDevadasi system in South India, women’s movements and their role, status ofdaughter-in-law, social efforts and women, the Dalits, gender bias, NGOs andwomen empowerment, and more.