Social Movements: women's movements: A Review

Abstract

Women's movements are planned efforts made by women's associations
to bring about impartiality and freedom for women. The status of women
has been the main concern of many reform movements before and after
independence. It is well known that The Indian society is innumerable
society with caste, religion, ethnicity and gender as some of the important dimensions
influencing politics and the development of the society. It is argued by many scholars that
gender has been a key issue in the history of the nation since the beginning of British colonial
rule over India. Gender, and the term "women" has been used to both front and confront
issues of equality in the society. The colonial rulers used gender, and they considered as
vicious and barbaric patriarchal practices towards women, as a justification for the rule forced
on India.