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Review Article Volume 10 Issue 1
An analytical study of the position of women in the Indian socio-politico and economic scenario
Maitreyee Bardhan Roy
Received: January 27, 2026 | Published: February 19, 2026
Citation: Roy MB. An analytical study of the position of women in the Indian socio-politico and economic scenario. Sociol Int J. 2026;10(1):12-17. DOI: 10.15406/sij.2026.10.00449
Abstract
The author of the article under the present research aims to look to the terminology ‘Women’ as a social stigma used under the traditional Indian socio-cultural scenario. The gendered structure in Indian society has been directed towards the ideology of domination of women as the most sensitive socio-cultural being nurtured under the patriarchal social structure. Based on the sexual vulnerability, the terminology ‘Women’ creates a sensation in the patriarchal social structure dominated by the educated masses and the political personalities of the country. The term ‘Woman’ to them indicate a kind of politico-social and cultural reaction. The relation and the concept of comparison in between the two sexes that grew up in the modern society, in a planned fashion aims to keep the women group away from the mainstream society on the excuse of being weak and vulnerable. Thus instead of maintaining the equal entity of women with the men, the society has categorized the women community on the basis of their qualities like educated or uneducated women, working or non-working women, middle-aged or old women, girl child or adolescent women. Thus the common parlance, of the term ` Women’ is categorized as a separate class identifying them under a social grouping different from the Men`s world and away from the mainstream society. The present paper aims to focus on that group of women identified through their politico social entity as the class society exposed as second sex or second gender in India. Since women constituted almost the half of the population of the country, the present paper while evaluating the position of women in the modern era, aims to focus on their status in the society not as women but as the human with equal respect with that of men in the present day socio-cultural scenario in India.
Keywords: gender, patriarchy, political women, sexually oriented women, women as a social stigma, vulnerability of women
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