Important Movements in India - Women’s Movement

The Women’s movement:

• The women's movement was started in India during the time prior to independence by progressive males. The women's movement worked to abolish the exploitation of women, end injustice against them, and empower them to live honourable lives and take an active role in society.
• The movement demanded that women should be treated as human beings and the freedom of women.
• After Post independence, women participated to a great extent in the movements against corruption, caste discrimination, and religious extremism which made them aware of injustice against their own selves.
• Women started taking initiative in Organising against injustice.
• In India, the women’s movement is not homogeneous in nature. However, women’s movements at various levels are taking up the issues like women’s health, social security, financial independence, and empowerment.
• Today women’s movement faces the challenge of equal education for women and giving women status and prestige as human beings.

Famous faces behind women's movement:

Modern Women Movement:

• Women in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district banded together in spontaneous local actions to oppose the sale of arrak and to compel the closure of a wine shop. The information quickly spread, inspiring women from over 5000 villages to convene meetings, pass resolutions calling for the imposition of prohibition, and send them to the District Collector. The Nellore District's movement gradually extended over the entire State.
  

  Women taking out procession in Hyderabad in 1992,protesting against the selling of arrack

  
  
• Women's organizations that addressed domestic abuse, the practice of dowery, sexual assault at work, and public places were active in various sections of the country in the past, mostly among urban middle-class women. 
  

  Women’s demonstration in favour of anti-dowry act

  
  
• The women's movement in the 1980s concentrated on concerns of sexual violence against women, both inside and outside the home. These organizations waged a campaign against the dowry system and urged that personal and property laws follow the standards of gender equality.
• During the 1990s, the movement called for equal participation of women in politics. We are aware that the 73rd and 74th amendments gave women voting rights in local political positions. Similar reservations have also been requested to be extended by State and Central legislatures.