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In the context of women’s movements and laws do you think that matriarchy is the need of the hour? Discuss in detail.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 10 marks
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Matriarchy means a system in which authority, property and public decision-making vest systematically in women — the mirror image of patriarchy. In my view it is neither empirically available nor normatively what the Indian women's movement has ever demanded. The movement's claim has been equality and entitlement, not the inversion of male rule.

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  • Matriarchy is not matriliny, and not matrifocality
  • What the movement and the law have actually sought
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