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| Published: March 25, 2016

Women Empowerment in Indian Culture: A Review

Harshida Patel

PhD Research Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Guj. India Google Scholar More about the auther

, Ankit Patel

Clinical Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Guj. India Google Scholar More about the auther

DIP: 18.01.192/20160302

DOI: 10.25215/0302.192

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In Indian Culture Women empowerment is a debatable subject. Women constitute almost 50% of the world’s population but India has shown disproportionate sex ratio whereby female’s population has been comparatively lower than males. As far as their social status is concerned, they are not treated as equal to men in all the places. In the Western societies, the women have got equal right and status with men in all walks of life. But gender disabilities and discriminations are found in India even today. The paradoxical situation has such that she was sometimes concerned as Goddess and at other times merely as slave.

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ISSN 2349-3429

18.01.192/20160302

10.25215/0302.192

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Published in   Volume 03, Issue 2, January-March, 2016