This world has always been a man dominated world. Man has treated women not as an equal partner in life but as a mere slave. Women is for him the weaker vessel. He has given her many beautiful names. A man calls his wife better-half. Women are known as the fair sex. We call them “Devis”. But all these are mere sugar coated words. He Perpetrates all kinds of atrocities on her. He abuses her physically, morally, sexually, economically and also politically. He uses her merely as a plaything as a tool to satisfy his animal diseases. This is because man is physically stronger than women. He knows that woman can’t win him in the battle of muscles. That is why he has kept her in a state of perpetual slavery throughout the ages. But times are beginning to change now. Women are becoming alive to rights. Education has gone a long way to improve their lot, but still much remains to be desired.
In the past, women were treated as mere slaves. As they belong to the weaker sex, men used to keep them under thumb. They were denied freedom. They were kept like dumb cattle within the four walls of the house. Indeed, they had no rights. Their most sacred duty was to obey blindly.
Though the conditions in the country are fast changing, yet women are still treated, in some respects, in the same old way. No one feels happy in the home at the birth of a female child. Even an only daughter is supposed to be a curse for the family. She is regarded as a decree of lakhs of rupees on the parents. Further, as a wife, she has always to obey her husband. “Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.” was the motto for them. Even educated and modernized husbands want to see their wives confined within the four walls. The noble professions of the outside world are considered to be of no concern to them. Their husbands, they may be good or bad, are their lords and gods.
Those changes are beneficial which come gradually. Our country is changing politically,