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FUTURE OF INDIAN WOMEN
Indian women are becoming increasingly visible and successful in
the professional and public sphere. Whether it is Barkha Dutt, who
has become a idol for several journalists, Arundhati Roy, a Booker
Prize Winner and a social activist, or Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, who
became the wealthiest Indian woman after the initial public offering
of her company, Biocon , they have all heralded the arrival of Indian
women professionals.
Although woomen in India are not yet equal to men. There is no
legal or constitutional barrier to equality. There is only the social
barrier. Women in India are more after a “respectable ” and “mean-
ingful” social status which is free from all sorts of exploitation. There
is no urge in them to outsmart men. They want their interests to be
protected and problems solved. As long as the problems of wom-
en remain as “women’s problems” and not as “societal problems “,
so long, attempts at the solution of these problems do not get the
required speed.
Women in India are not yet equal to men. There is no legal or consti-
tutional barrier to equality. There is only the social barrier. Women
in India are more after a “respectable ” and “meaningful” social sta-
tus which is free from all sorts of exploitation. There is no urge in
them to outsmart men. They want their interests to be protected
and problems s