Question

Speech on status of older women in the society

Answer 1

Women have been treated as ‘objects’ by the male-dominated society in India and elsewhere. However, there is no uniform pattern of social, cultural and economic distinctions between men and women. In contemporary India, gender-based consciousness has its origin in emergence of the middle classes and their problems.

Patriarchy is very strong in India despite several movements for the upliftment of women launched by women’s organisations during the pre- and the post-independence periods. Sex morals have a direct bearing on hierarchy of caste and class groups.