"to secure to all the people .
justice, social,economic and political;
equality of status, opportunity and before the law;
freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith, worship, vocation, association and action, subject to law and public morality."
The Constitution is firmly grounded in the principles of liberty, fraternity, equality and justice. It emphasises the importance of greater freedoms for all and contains a number of provisions for the empowerment of women. Women's right to equality and non-discrimination are defined as justiciable fundamental rights.
The need for specific laws focussed to protect Womens rights can be seen from these Statistics.
Men outnumber women in India, unlike in most other countries where the reverse is the case. In 1991, there were only 927 women for every 1000 men. The reason for this imbalance is that many women die before reaching adulthood.
The majority of women go through life in a state of nutritional stress they are anaemic and malnourished. Girls and women face nutritional discrimination within the family, eating last and least.
Women work longer hours than men, and carry the major share of household and community work, which is unpaid and invisible.
Women generally earn a far lower wage than men doing the same work.
Women face violence inside and outside the family throughout their lives.
Police records show that a woman is molested in the country every 26
minutes. A rape occurs every 34 minutes. Every 42 minutes, an incident
of sexual harassment takes place. Every 43 minutes, a woman is
kidnapped. Every 93 minutes, a woman is killed.
(To add to these, every second a women is pyschologically tormented,
every minute a women is emotionally disturbed. Every 2 minutes a women is reassured that she has no right to freedom. She has to lead a bonded life from father, to brother, to husband, to Son.)
Hence specific laws are needed to uplift and free the women of the above.
Some men are against the law as they see their traditional right of chauvinism and abuse being eroded by these laws.



