Women and Protective Laws

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Personal laws for women. 3. Offences affecting the human body of women. 4. Benefits under labour laws. 5. Legal protection to women in respect to maintenance. 6. Adoption. 7. Guardianship. 8. Succession. 9. Laws for protection of women. Bibliography. Index.

Law cannot be divided into Law relating to Men and Law relating to women as law of any country is applicable to all persons i.e. male and female. Whatever Law is applicable to men is also applicable to women equally. However some enactments may be exclusively for women to upliftment of the dignity and status of women in society. The life of women is divided into four parts: childhood, adolescent, adult and old age. There are laws to protect women in all the stages. The book is an effort to compile various laws relating to women.