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Social Empowerment of Women in India With Special Focus on the Recent Supreme Court Landmark Decisions

Social Empowerment of Women in India With Special Focus on the Recent Supreme Court Landmark Decisions

Chengappa M. P., Aishwarya Roy
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781799828198|ISBN10: 1799828190|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799828204|EISBN13: 9781799828211
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch022
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Chengappa M. P., and Aishwarya Roy. "Social Empowerment of Women in India With Special Focus on the Recent Supreme Court Landmark Decisions." Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment, edited by Moly Kuruvilla and Irene George, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 398-414. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch022

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Chengappa M. P. & Roy, A. (2020). Social Empowerment of Women in India With Special Focus on the Recent Supreme Court Landmark Decisions. In M. Kuruvilla & I. George (Eds.), Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment (pp. 398-414). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch022

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Chengappa M. P., and Aishwarya Roy. "Social Empowerment of Women in India With Special Focus on the Recent Supreme Court Landmark Decisions." In Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment, edited by Moly Kuruvilla and Irene George, 398-414. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch022

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Abstract

Historically, women have been attached with so many disabilities. Much attention has not been paid to the social and economic development of the women despite women consisting of half of the population. Apart from constitutional and fundamental rights, there is a separate chapter created under the Indian constitution (i.e., Directive Principles of State Policy), which mandates the state towards positive obligation for the empowerment of weaker sections of the society including women. The contribution of Parliament through the enactment of a law for the social development of women is positive. The Apex court in India struck down so many archaic legal provisions that discriminate against the women in its various decisions. The objective of the chapter is 1) an analysis of the methodology adopted by the court for the empowerment of the women, 2) to access the practical implication of court cases on the social empowerment of women, and 3) to look into the strategy adopted by the executive or government in furtherance of the said landmark decisions.

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