Appreciate the role of mothers is Himachal Pradesh to increase women position in
the society.
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Explanation:
The status of women in any civilization shows the stage of
evolution at which, the civilization has arrived. The term ‘status’
includes not only personal and proprietary rights but also duties,
liabilities and disabilities. In the case of an Indian woman it
means her personal rights, proprietary right, her duties, liabilities
and disabilities vis-a-vis the society and her family members.
Right from 19th century the English evolutionist, Sir Henry
Maine, and later American sociologists, Robert E. Park and
Frmost W. Burgess have contributed to the concept of status as
either from status to contract (Mains), or as relevant contrast
between status and completion (Park and Burgess). With the
development of modern sociology and social anthropology, all
culturally prescribed rights and duties inherent in social positions
have been encompassed in the term status. In the beginning the
status referred only to the ‘ascribed ‘status. But, of late, it has
been widened to ‘achieved’ status too. The status was
distinguished as ascribed and achieved by Ralph Linton, the
eminent American anthropologists. Broadly speaking, the
ascribed status refers to the inherited one. But the status
resulting from personal attainment of goals, set forth by the
culture, is treated as achieved one. Status is a very ambiguous word. It has both subjective and objective components. One might mean by status, “esteem” or the subjective feeling of being respected. It may include many
symbolic contents veneration may however coexist with denial, deprivation of various sorts. A great deal of the contents of
‘status’ today is evaluated in terms of development indicators –
income, property or opportunities and use of training in skill that
open up chances of employment, health levels, etc. These are
what have come to be known as quality of life indicators. There
are in most countries status reports that document how women
have lower incomes, lower employment, lower education, lower
health, etc. Status may also include custom and practices that
are restrictive, oppressive and damaging to the physical and
Psychological well–being of women–practices that control and
restrict movement, that restrict free choice in matters of everyday
life, that mutilate their bodies or even destroy their lives.
“Status” is correlated to the participatory right and obligations of
women in the managing of society; there studies examine the
“role” assigned to them by tradition, religion, ideology and the
stage of economic development. As the enhancement of status is
essentially the enlargement of scope of participatory rights in the
running of society, a review has been made of the trends
“emancipation” in different countries: the removal of constraints,
historical or constitutional, which impeded a more forth–coming
role on the part of the women.
The concept of status is related to the concept of role.
Linton, treats role as the more dynamic aspect of status.
Generally, the status assumes a problematic form when roles are
vaguely or ambiguously defined. The status is a collection of
rights and duties. The individual may occupy a status. For
Znamiecki, status chiefly refers to social status where stress
remains on social aspect of role. The actual treatment obtained,
legal status, opportunities for social participations and character.
As per Malinowaski, the status is included in equal opportunity for
work, types of taboos, contribution in the house economy for
tribal women.
The above explanations convince that various ideas
conceived in the explanation of status. When pooled together,
can be more used and use of single concept may not make the
position clear in the case of women. Another significant
dimension, with the above, is to take note of three important
stages, that is, of maidenhood, wifehood and motherhood, while
analyzing the status of women. Status has been like to the
moving equilibrium at various times and in the various parts of
the globe.
Thus, it is clear that the terms status refers to a position of
women as an individual in the social structure defined by her
designated rights and obligations. Each status or position is
explained in terms of a role, or the pattern of behavior expected
of the occupants of a status; role is, thus, the dynamic aspect of
status. In as much as the former can-notes a behavioral pattern,
the latter refers to the location in a system of social relationships.