FEMINISM IN GLOBAL SCENARIO

Abstract

The present paper looks at the literal background of the rise of feminism and women’s movement and doing gender in India. Not only in India but each over the world there has been a close link between feminism and the women’s movement, each inspiring and perfecting the other. Although in India the women’s movements is old miracle, Feminism has just emerged as a modern term. Feminism encompasses social, artistic, political, philosophical, and economic movements, doctrines and concepts concerned with gender imbalances and equal rights for woman. The feminist movements in India are a much before marvel, but the term Feminism is modern. It refers to a nexus of social, artistic, and political movements, proposition, and ethical principles that concern gender issues and equality for women. As a result of learning English and contacting the west, the western concept of liberty, equivalency and fraternity was ingrained in the aristocracy. Enhanced by this international influence, western leftism was extended to the women’s issue and become part of the social reform movement. The post-independence era, an important issue throughout the first few decades was overall profitable growth. Another decade followed, characterized by an emphasis on equity and poverty alleviation. As far as gender issues were concerned, poverty-related initiatives had been established, and there were no special programs for women. Since independence, the women’s movement has taken on a range of issues, such as dowry, women’s labor, price increases and domestic violence. There has been a long history of women’s movements in India that has led to the formation of women’s studies and gender studies. These have been quite colorful and vibrant and moment by moment these are fading from the radar. Now, there is an ongoing struggle to keep these alive.