Shubhankar Kaushal, Amity Law School, Amity University, Noida
Introduction
Despite India being heralded as a nation that has plurality across its cultures, diversity in its traditions and practices, it is also condemned for its misogynistic and patriarchal thinking. For a very long time, women were considered to be chattel or property, who were completely under the control of their fathers (before marriage), then under their husband (after marriage) and later under their sons (after the death of the husband). 1 Also, the re seemed no need for parents to send their daughters to school because of the unquestioned yet accepted norm that the sole duty of the woman after she grew up was to take care of the household and look after her children, thus rendering the money invested in her education as a sunk cost. While societal norms have since been re written with 65% of our women population being literate 2 the fact that India ranks 120th among 131 nations in terms of women workforce 3 points that patriarchy is still a widely p revalent phenomenon.
