{"id":230914,"date":"2023-03-14T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=230914"},"modified":"2023-03-14T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:32:05","slug":"different-faces-of-the-indian-womens-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/different-faces-of-the-indian-womens-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Different faces of the Indian women\u2019s movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>Different faces of the Indian women\u2019s movement<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 13th March 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Indian women\u2019s movement is well-known for its vibrancy, but there has been less attention on the movement\u2019s gradual transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the evolution of women’s movements in India<\/b><\/h2>\n

Nationalist movement: <\/b>The political history of the Indian women\u2019s movement is written in photographs of wave after wave of arrests of women satyagrahis during the Salt Satyagraha and the Quit India Movement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 <\/span>Quote:<\/b> \u201cWhen woman, whom we call abala (weak), become sabala (strong), all those who are helpless will become powerful\u201d a clarification by Gandhiji at All India Women\u2019s Conference (1936) was the hallmark of a nationalist movement that relied on women to serve as its face.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ecofeminist movements<\/b>: <\/span>Chipko, one of the earliest ecofeminist movements in the world, circulated photographs of women clinging to trees to protest tree cutting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Quiet revolution of the 1970s:<\/b> It probably did as much to enhance attention to women\u2019s specific needs as street protests.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 For example, the Self-Employed Women\u2019s Association began to unionize women in the informal sector leading the advocacy for reforms in legal and social protection for women workers;<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Feminist advocacy highlighting sex-selective abortion and discrimination in inheritance patterns led to legal reforms; and<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Women\u2019s formal and informal collectives have worked hard to reform and implement laws against sexual harassment in the workforce and in public spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n

73rd Amendment to the Constitutio<\/b>n<\/strong>: It was passed, reserving one-third of seats in panchayat and leadership positions in local bodies for women.<\/span><\/p>\n

Self Help Groups(SHGs):<\/b> The latest era in women\u2019s activism is distinguished by the harsh politics of protest and quietly organized rights-based movements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The government has invested heavily in the formation and support of Self Help Groups (SHGs).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The Economic Survey states that there are about 12 million self-help groups in India today, the majority of which are women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 These SHGs are usually supported and advised by community resource persons paid by the state. SHGs primarily function as savings and loan institutions where members deposit small amounts of savings per month and can borrow in case of emergencies. In some cases, they also support entrepreneurship through bank loans.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cDifferent faces of the Indian women\u2019s movement\u201d published in The Hindu on 13th March 2023. What is the News? The Indian women\u2019s movement is well-known for its vibrancy, but there has been less attention on the movement\u2019s gradual transformation. About the evolution of women’s movements in India… Continue reading Different faces of the Indian women\u2019s movement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-230914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":8,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698376504},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}