Vol. 5, Issue 3, Part A (2019)

Abstract
India has always been a land of paradoxes and contradictions. Woman in India has from time immemorial been a symbol of power and divinity and at the same time has always been considered to be a weaker sex who must be nourished under a male domination. Times have changed and so also the society but the role of women happens to be the same- Fight for equality seems to be unending – No doubt, with changing trends, a new horizon has dawned upon India and its women have earned much liberty. Today women in India have gained social, economic, educational, professional and political freedom of some sort and their status has thus elevated in society. Inspite of all this modernity, a question still lures on our mind “Are the women really equal in this androcentric Indian society”?