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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Discuss law as an important instrument for women’s empowerment.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

Naila Kabeer defines empowerment as the expansion of the ability to make strategic life choices, through resources, agency and achievements. Law can supply resources and legitimise agency; whether achievements follow is an empirical question, and India — which legislated equality for a society that had not demanded it — is the standing test.

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  • Why law can empower
  • The Indian legal arc
  • What law has actually delivered
  • The counter-case
  • Conclusion

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