WOMEN, DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY: CHANGING FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES IN INDIA
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Keywords:
Women, Development, Femininst, IndiaAbstract
The reaction of women over the world led them to question: was this an admission that everything else was the Year of the Man? (Steinem, 1985: 279). This marks a turning point in the story of women's progress towards freedom and equality. A strange uniformity of pattern exists in the struggle of women whether in Asia, Africa, America or Europe. The prejudices and obstacles in the path of progress that women have to surmount seem almost identical. I
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