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Comment on the factors behind the changing status of women in urban India.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

The city is where Indian women's status has changed fastest and least evenly. Education, the professions and the law have transformed what an urban woman may be; work, time and safety still govern what she may do. The factors driving change and those blocking it are one set of urban structures seen from two sides.

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