Fourth World Conference on Women Beijing, 1995
Excerpts from the Country Report
Department of Women and Child Development
Ministry of Human Resource Development
Government of India
New Delhi
An Introduction to the Situation of Indian Women
From Mexico to Copenhagen on to Nairobi and finally to Beijing; is just two decades of contemporary social history. In terms of time frame, two decades of social history constitute a very short span. However, if one looks at the history of the struggle for women’s rights both in India and in the world, this period has been one of the most eventful. From the fervent feminism of the sixties to the introspections on women’s status in the seventies, to women—in—development debates in the eighties and to focus ...
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