How Did India Successfully Reform Women’s Rights? Part II: Answers from the Movement on Protection from Violence

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How Did India Successfully Reform Women’s Rights? Part II: Answers from the Movement on Protection from Violence

dc.contributor.author	Braunmiller, Julia Constanze
dc.contributor.author	Santagostino Recavarren, Isabel
dc.contributor.author	Mittal, Aparna
dc.contributor.author	Khatri, Tanvi
dc.date.accessioned	2025-04-17T15:04:48Z
dc.date.available	2025-04-17T15:04:48Z
dc.date.issued	2025-04-17
dc.description.abstract	This two-part policy brief series traces the development and reform of law in India related to three critical areas that affect women’s rights and economic opportunities: women’s property rights, domestic violence, and sexual harassment in the workplace. It explores the underlying factors and driving forces that led to reforms as well as the broad processes and extensive timelines required for change. It also highlights remaining gaps, including the absence of robust implementation as well as how inadequate administrative and infrastructural support for reform hinder true gender equality in a deeply patriarchal society. The achievements in India, which are the result of years of concerted eff-orts and thought leadership by multiple governmental and nongovernmental players, private actors, and women’s rights activists, could function as a how to guide for other countries that may want to carry out similar reforms in the future. This second Brief in the series explores the decades-long journey that led to the adoption of the 2005 Domestic Violence Act and the 2013 Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, and highlights remaining legal and implementation gaps in the effective elimination of violence against women.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099340107072321829
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/43081
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43081
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Global Indicators Briefs; No. 20
dc.rights	CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subject	GENDER EQUALITY
dc.subject	GENDER AND EMPLOYMENT
dc.subject	WOMEN'S PROPERTY RIGHTS
dc.subject	DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
dc.subject	SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE
dc.title	How Did India Successfully Reform Women’s Rights? Part II	en
dc.title.subtitle	Answers from the Movement on Protection from Violence	en
dc.type	Brief
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okr.date.disclosure	2025-04-17
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-04-20T02:17:48.478831Z
okr.doctype	Brief
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
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okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.region.country	India
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Law
okr.topic	Law and Development::Law and Gender
okr.topic	Social Development::Social Conflict and Violence
okr.unit	Women
okr.unit	Business & the Law-WB (DECWL)