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`Introspection promotes gender equality'

By Our Staff Reporter

DINDIGUL, MARCH 13. A critical introspection into achievements and limitations, hurdles and challenges leading to self-reliance of women promotes gender equality in the country.

Addressing International Women's day celebrations held at the Gandhigram recently, M. Kuruvammal, feminist scholar, laid an emphasis on the adoption of positive and constructive mind set right from the cradle towards development of gender equality in the minds of the people.

S. Gurusamy, Head, Sociology Department, Gandhigram Rural Institute, in his special address, stressed the need for women's emancipation for development of the country.

Gender issues haunting the contemporary society need to be tackled in sociological perspectives. The need of the hour was to bring out social change that promotes human values for creation of an egalitarian society, he said.

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