This blog covers the aspect of women from past history to the present world. It shows how the law of our country has contributed its best to change the lives of women, to make them live with dignity and respect and not as a slave.
All women are it a sister, a wife, a mother, a grandmother is a key to a family. The world can never be complete without a woman. Law is the set of rules enforced to govern the behavior of people. From the beginning of this world, women are treated as the weaker section of the society and they are the victims of the crimes like rape, eve teasing, female infanticide, dowry, domestic violence, child marriage and acid throwing. They were only allowed to live beneath the shoes of their husbands and fathers.
Laws are being made to secure the lives of the women from the violence of their families and societies, and to provide them with their rights of which they are the owners. This blog covers the aspect of women from past history to the present world. It shows how the law of our country has contributed its best to change the lives of women, to make them live with dignity and respect and not as a slave.
Women in India are being provided with the legal security to secure their economic, social and cultural lives. These are the few acts which show the efforts made by the Indian Government in the interest of safeguarding women’s life. Dowry Prohibition Act 1961, Maternity Benefit Act 1861, Births, Deaths & Marriages Registration Act 1886, Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971, National Commission for Women Act 1990, Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act 1999, Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act 2013, Hindu Widows Remarriage Act 1856, Muslim women (protection of rights on divorce) Act 1986, Guardians and Wards Act 1890, Indian Penal Code 1860, Christian Marriages Act 1872, etc.
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