Property Rights of Women

Contents 1. Matrimonial property rights for Indian women an analysis/R. Meenakshi. 2. Women's property rights a social work perspective/I.V. Lalitha Kumari. 3. Women's property right a gender perspective/B. Suguna. 4. Property rights with special emphasis on women's matrimonial property/K. Samuvel. 5. Equality in property rights where does the Hindu women stand/Yelamanchili Satyanarayana. 6. Property rights of women/A. Balu and Nisha Thundiyil. 7. Property rights of women in India a case of institutionalised gender division/Neeta Tapan. 8. Women and property rights with special emphasis on matrimonial property/S.N. Yogish. 9. Cultural practices of property rights of women in tribal India/Gaya Pandey. 10. The rights of wife to claim on a division of matrimonial property after dissolution of marriage Malaysian perspective/Norliah Ibrahim. 11. Property rights of a wife/M. Supputhai. In Indian society the status of women has changed from time to time depicting the position of women in society as an index to the standard of social organization. The status of any given sections of population in a society is intimately connected with its economic position which depends on rights roles and opportunities for participation in economic activities. The economic status of women is now accepted as an indicator of a society's stage of development. Though India is committed not to discriminate any citizen on the bases of sex caste religion language and area yet the women have been and still are subjected to discrimination in many ways. In Five year Plans women could not obtain their due share. Nearly half of our population are women but they are lagging in comparison to the man in every walk of life. 138 pp.…