THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT FOR EQUITABLE DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY IN INDIA

Abstract

India is the largest democratic country with 143 crores of population and the 95 crores of voters participating the biggest elections in the world. Women population in India are the half of the total population, but in all walks of life women don’t have the equal opportunities and justice though they are enshrined in the Indian Constitution. Indian women had the wider experience of conducting movement in the freedom movement. After Constitution came into force women had to start their movement to secure their rights. If women could have achieved their movement then they will get equal opportunities and justice in the society, that will be an equitable democratic society. It is observed that to achieve that that aim of the movement women should have followed the democratic way of fighting in which----- respecting the views of others, acting cooperatively, arriving the decisions through discussions, respecting equality, respecting the rights of others, and tolerating the views of others. This should be the attitude and perspective of the entire women movement. Recently the Indian Parliament passed the 33% of Political Reservation bill , women movement should utilize this constitutional amendment for their better life, then only they will able to enjoy their constitutional guarantees of liberty, equality, justice, fraternity and political empowerment. Women movement will have to get the aimed equitable democratic society through Constitutional methods. We followed the Historical and analytical research methods while pursuing this paper, we invited the further research in pursuing area.