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=__**Ghandi and women**__= = When Gandhiji assumed India's leadership the average life span of an Indian woman was only twenty seven years. Babies and the pregnant women ran a high risk of dying young. Child marriage was very common and widows were in very large number. = = = = Only 2% of the women had any kind of education and women did not have an identity of their own. In North India, they practiced the [|purdah] (veil ) system. Women could not go out of the house unless accompanied by men and the face covered with cloth. The fortunate ones who could go to school had to commute in covered carts (//tangas//). = = It is in this context that we have to recognize the miracle of Gandhi's work. Gandhiji claimed that a woman is completely equal to a man and practiced it in strict sense. = = = = Thousands and millions of women, educated and illiterate, house wives and widows, students and elderly participated in the India's freedom movement because of his influence. = = He believed that the difference between men and women was only physical and has expressed several times in his writings tha t in many matters especially those of tolerance, patience, and sacrifice the Indian woman is superior to the male = = Gandhiji declared that there is no school better than home and there is no teacher better than parents. = = = = He said men and women are equal, but not identical. "Intellectually, mentally, and spiritually, woman is equivalent to a male and she can participate in every activity." = = Early in his marriage he too wanted to dominate his wife. He often said that paternal society is the root cause of inequality. = = = = Womanhood is not restricted to the kitchen", he opined and felt that "Only when the woman is liberated from the slavery of the kitchen, that her true spirit may be discovered". It does not mean that women should not cook, but only that household responsibilities be shared among men, women and children. = = = = He wanted women to outgrow the traditional responsibilities and participate in the affairs of nation. He criticized Indian's passion for male progeny. He said that as long as we don't consider girls as natural as our boys our nation will be in a dark eclipse. = = Girls used to get married very early and after the deaths of their husbands, they were condemned to a life of great agony, shaving heads, living in isolation, and shunned by the society = = He declared the marriages in which the girls were not consulted were unholy . At that time in Madras the number of child widows were alarmingly large. He called upon the young to marry the widows and also to boycott child marriages = = http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/ gwomen.htm =

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[] http://www.mkgandhi.org/ onlinequiz.htm POWERPOINT [] http://people.pppst.com/ gandhi.html Choose a great soul

Timeline http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/ mkgtimeline.htm

Wheel [] Gandhi Reads Papers in Front of His Spinning Wheel > =Gandhi advocated the boycott of the machine made European clothing as it caused large scale unemployment in India. He took to making hand-made cloth called [|Khadi] that was inexpensive and suitable for poor Indians. Most importantly, it showed Indians how to be self-reliant. Gandhi worked on his spinning wheel (called Charakha) till his last days, claiming that he felt like he was eating stolen food if he did not work.= > =Shown above: Photographer Margate Bourke-White's famous picture of Gandhi taken for the LIFE Magazine.=

> dership the average life span of an Indian woman was only twenty seven years. Babies and the pregnant women ran a high risk of dying young. Child marriage was very common and widows were in very large number. = = = Only 2% of the women had any kind of education and women did not have an identity of their own. In North India, they practiced the [|purdah] (veil ) system. Women could not go out of the house unless accompanied by men and the face covered with cloth. The fortunate ones who could go to school had to commute in covered carts (//tangas//). = = It is in this context that we have to recognize the miracle of Gandhi's work. Gandhiji claimed that a woman is completely equal to a man and practiced it in strict sense. = = = = Thousands and millions of women, educated and illiterate, house wives and widows, students and elderly participated in the India's freedom movement because of his influence. = = He believed that the difference between men and women was only physical and has expressed several times in his writings tha t in many matters especially those of tolerance, patience, and sacrifice the Indian woman is superior to the male = = Gandhiji declared that there is no school better than home and there is no teacher better than parents. = = = = He said men and women are equal, but not identical. "Intellectually, mentally, and spiritually, woman is equivalent to a male and she can participate in every activity." = = Early in his marriage he too wanted to dominate his wife. He often said that paternal society is the root cause of inequality. = = = = Womanhood is not restricted to the kitchen", he opined and felt that "Only when the woman is liberated from the slavery of the kitchen, that her true spirit may be discovered". It does not mean that women should not cook, but only that household responsibilities be shared among men, women and children. = = = = He wanted women to outgrow the traditional responsibilities and participate in the affairs of nation. He criticized Indian's passion for male progeny. He said that as long as we don't consider girls as natural as our boys our nation will be in a dark eclipse. = = Girls used to get married very early and after the deaths of their husbands, they were condemned to a life of great agony, shaving heads, living in isolation, and shunned by the society = = He declared the marriages in which the girls were not consulted were unholy . At that time in Madras the number of child widows were alarmingly large. He called upon the young to marry the widows and also to boycott child marriages = = http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/ gwomen.htm =

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