It is to correct the focus with issues and themes about women, on women and of women an historical account of women in society from pre-historic to present day has been attempted in this study. On the basis of historical account presented on women, it is the avowed desire of the authors as how it would help resolve problems of women and enable their empowerment. We may feel honoured if our desire is fulfilled.
In the settled society that evolved later, first the means of production were communally owned and every member of the community was provided for on an equal basis with all others. Such was the primitive society. The primitive society in fact, was collectivist, equalitarian and democratic, or the fact that it was matriarchal, with women occupying influential and respected positions in the community. "During the period when men were occupied as full-time hunters and warriors, women developed most of the basic tools, skills and techniques at the base of social advancement. From food collecting they moved on to simple horticulture and then to agriculture. Out of great variety of crafts they practiced, which included pot-making, leather making, textile-making, house-building etc. They developed the rudiments of botany, chemistry, medicine and other branches of scientific knowledge.
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Hindu (906)
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