• Dr.E.Ajitha

Women have for centuries been subjugated and treated as second class citizens all over the world. It is an irony that they constitute nearly half the global population and yet are deprived of equality of status. The recognition for the dire need of empowerment of women coupled with the realisation that the empowerment of women would lead to development of the respective nations has driven the global community to take steps to improve the status of women. The Agenda for sustainable development goals 2030 has also included gender equality as one of its goals. This inclusion is the acknowledgement of the need to focus on providing an enabling environment to facilitate the realisation of the womens’ rights and freedoms. And it imposes an obligation on all the signatories to the agenda to provide for such conducive environment in their respective countries for the empowerment of women. This article looks at the status of women in India and also studies the legal framework, the executive machinery and the judicial activism in the sphere of gender equality

Gender equality, laws, judiciary, executive schemes

"GENDER EQUALITY – THE CORNERSTONE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.70-77, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901110.pdf

"GENDER EQUALITY – THE CORNERSTONE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp70-77, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901110.pdf