WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN CHANGING INDIA

In this article, author tends to analyse how women in Indian culture are portrayed? Furtherance to it article investigates what roles they are expected to play in family, workplace and in society? How they struggle to secure their positions in the society? This article also highlights the issues and challenges faced by women in different times in the history and what kinds of role models they became for society and nation. It is an attempt to understand feminism in Indian context. What kinds of contributions or roles, a nation like India expecting from women in present time, is core of this article. The author raised few questions in the context of roles of Indian women to preserve the cultural heritage of our nation. Article discusses the women's role as mothers in family and envisioning their empowerment in the context of empowerment of the nation.