Women's Rights under Indian Law

Women are considered the most Vulnerable section of the society. We live in 21st century but even then too females across the globe are not treated humanely leave the matter of fact of equal gender treatment . Women are still treated as entities who after marriage has the sole responsibility of producing and rearing children, looking after household chores , caring the in laws and that becomes their sole identity post marriage . According to world health organization, 1 out of every 3[1] women globally have been subjected to sexual or physical violence at least once during their lifetime . Throughout the history it is the women who suffered the most during any war. Women belonging to countries / parties who got defeated in the war faced brutal consequence. They were raped which was used as a method to crumble the community's morale . Forced pregnancy was done as a part of "ethnic cleansing" whereas forced sterilization was a method to reduce the population of the defeated countries . The Japanese military forced thousands of asian women into sexual slavery in "comfort stations" and termed these women as "comfort women" . The never ending want for a male heir has lead to many female foeticide and infanticide . Around 3/4th of the world's human trafficking constitute of women and girls . "Missing women" [2], a term used by the economists for females who went missing globally ( Around 100 million ) due to neglect, poor nutrition and unequal access to Healthcare . These issues have raised serious concerns about what are a women's right and are the women actually reaping it's benefit .