The Challenges of Women Social Freedom In India: A Case Study of Women in Mathura and Agra City

Women in India are still subjected to discrimination, ill treatment and enjoy lower status as compared with men. As a result of which there is a growing concern and resentment particularly among educated women and educated working women against all such customs and rituals, which lower down their status in society. Social freedom is the desire to be free from social taboos, conventions, rituals and roles, which provide them with lower status in society. Social freedom means freedom from control or interference of parents and husband, freedom from social taboos, customs and rituals, which impose conventional roles and restrictions on girls/women. Women in India carry a strong desire for freedom. Women have been given equal rights in our constitution. However, it is a sad reality that women are still slaves as they were ages ago. It is pleasant to talk about women liberation; but, no one has really given them real freedom despite all the laws.