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women from age past, and so women have developed an inferiority complex. She has believed in the truth of man's interested teaching that she is interior to him. Human beings are equal in their ability. The study also concludes that the social environment is not conclusive to enable a woman to move freely inside the society whether it is inside the market place or in the cinema hall. Women always apprehend bad comments, misbehaviour and harassments from their male counter-parts.
The traditional outlook that women should not move freely in society seems to be still prevailing in the mid of the male folk.
Thus the paper can finally be concluded with the comments have been rightly mentioned in the report of the committee on the status of women in India. Government of India, Ministry of Social Welfare, 1974).
"The deep foundations of the inequality of the sexes are built in the minds of men and women through a socialization process which continues to be extremely powerful. Right from their earliest years, boys and girls are brought up to know that they are different from each other and this differenciation is strengthened in every way possible....through language forms, modes of behaviour, of labour etc. The only institution which can counter-act the effect of this process is the educational system. If education is to promote equality for women, it must make a deliberate, planned and sustained effort so that the new value of equality of sexes, can replace the traditional value system of inequality. The educational system today has not even attempted to undertake this responsibility....." Political Activities
Indian women today are equal in law, unequal in fact. Though equality of opportunities to both males and females in every sphere of human activity is, no doubt, a difficult task. Our late Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi on the commemoration of International Women's year (IWY), 1975 also said that, "Our women have more rights, than women of other countries, but there are large areas wherein women are suffering, where, many they are not conscious of their rights." (G. Erving, 1975).'
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