Knowledge Themes
National Commission for Women Act 1990
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005
Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act 2013
Article 14
Article 15(3)
Article 16
Self-Help Groups (SHGs)
SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association)
AIWC (All India Women's Conference)
Chipko Movement
Anti-Arrack Movement
Towards Equality Report 1974
73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts
Gulabi Gang
Women's Indian Association (WIA)
Structural Subtopics
- 19th-century socio-religious reform movements and women's upliftment
- Early women's associations like Arya Mahila Samaj and Bharat Mahila Parishad
- Founding and role of Bharat Stree Mahamandal (1910)
- Evolution of the Women's Indian Association (1917) and its suffrage movement
- Role of the National Council of Women in India (1925)
- Formation and social reform agenda of All India Women's Conference (1927)
- Women’s organizations in the Swadeshi and Non-Cooperation movements
- Contribution of women's groups to the Quit India Movement
- Participation of women leaders in the Constituent Assembly and legal reforms
- Post-independence shift from welfare-based to rights-based women's organizations
- Rise of autonomous women's movements in the 1970s and 1980s
- Impact of the 'Towards Equality' Report (1974) on women's advocacy
- Grassroots movements such as SEWA and the Anti-Arrack movement
- Contemporary challenges of NGOs in tackling violence against women and digital empowerment
Study Material
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