Question

why did women become central to the reform movement/

Answer 1

It is because women were given a setback since the very beginning.So inorder for our country to progress,it had become mandatory to uplift the status of women..because it is the women(mother) who is a child's first teacher..so if reforms are brought concerning women the whole of the country would be reformed in itself.

Answer 2

driver also awareness among and number of people that cause the subjugation was the internal weakness of our social structure almost all intellectuals of 19th century felt that the need for information or reforms women became Central and Reform movement as they were almost half of the population