Women’s Property Rights – Role of Women Leaders in Tamilnadu

Abstract

This paper attempts to bring into light the role of women leaders of Tamilnadu for improving the legal status of women in inheritance. Number of women leaders, political as well as social and women organizations were centered on the major problems of property rights for women. The Madras Branch of All India Women’s Conference had played a very important part in supporting social legislations to improve the status of women. A close association of Indian women with the political movement enabled them to bring about radical changes in their status with the least resistance from men. The women activists of Tamilnadu such as Muthulakshmi Reddy, T.S. Soundaram, Anandanayaki and others focused their attention on the gender based oppression of women