Women's Economic Contribution

India is a vast country, rich in its culture and traditions with strong a patriarchal society. The Indian constitution grants women equal rights with men, but strong patriarchal system persists which shapes lives of the women with traditions which are century old. In most Indian families daughters are viewed as liabilities and she is conditioned to believe that she is inferior and subordinate to men. Sons are idolized and celebrated. The origin of an appropriate behaviour of an Indian female can be traced way back to the rules laid by Manu in 200 B.C. In childhood a women should be subject to her father, in her youth to her husband and when her lord is dead then to her sons. Thus, in the midst of this strong patriarchy there is a constant battle to remove the gender disparities existing between men and women.