Undercurrent Of The Progress Of Women In India

Abstract

Woman as being the victim was the underlying discourse of the Indian women's movement in its
early phases. The feminists focused on the many ways in which physical and psychological violence
was used to keep women subordinated to the hierarchies of family and society. The systematic
victimization of women was challenged by the feminists by their breaking their silence on the violence
endured by them. Many of the urban middle class Indian women have thus consciously refused to be
victims and have broken the chains which bound them and have emerged free. They have tested their
abilities and strengths in all fields and it is this flowering of independence and personal power which is
the essence of empowerment.
Key words- Undercurrent Of The Progress , Women In India, empowerment.