What are the Laws of the constitution pertaining to Women?
Posted on: 08/Mar/2017 4:19:22 PM
On today’s special occasion of the celebration of Women’s Day, it is definitely worthwhile knowing the Laws pertaining to women.
Here is a chronological list of the various laws enacted pertaining to the women:
1925 – Under the India Inheritance Law, property rights were accorded to wives and daughters.
1929 – Child Marriage Prevention Law was enacted.
1955 – As per the wedding law, the marriage age of the girls was fixed at 17 and later (presently), it has been revised as 21.
1956 – Inheritance Law – The daughters in the family are given rights to the property of the parents.
1956 – Windows remarriage Act – The act approving the remarriage of widows was passed.
1961 – Child-birth welfare Law – these facilitated women to take leave during the delivery period with wages.
1961 – Dowry Prevention Act – The act giving jail sentence for those who ask and get dowry was enacted. It was revised in 1984.
1986 – Act preventing women shown in an obscene manner
1989 – Inheritance Law – Equal share of ancestral/parental properties for women
1990 – Women’s National Law
1994 – Act regarding the gender identification of the child in the womb and prevention of female child infant foeticide
2005 – Protection for women from family violence
2013 – Prevention of sexual harassment of women in the workplace
