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Woman is not merely a passionate, charming, delicate creature who can love sing and dance and dress and serve; it is not just a loveable, decorable, compatible and pleasurable asset, it is a being who can comfort and counsel; one can reason and reflect, since and judge, create and educate, one who can assist and share; one who can ably aid and strengthen the menfolk in the act of development. Women can play a more creative, positive and challenging role in nation building.  It is imperative to note that men alone cannot break the shackles of poverty, unemployment, inequality and population explosion.  Active and equal participation of women in accomplishment of this merculean task is indispensable. The study must be in depth to appreciate what one has done for women and shorn of all clichés and mistakes of the past, what still remains to be done.  The idea that pervades through this exercise is emphasizing that the state cannot profess faith in the cherished constitutional various on one hand and remain unconcerned of the millions of women on the other.The study is concerned with women workers and their problems and prospects in industry.  Suggestions to improve the status and working of women were made.  Discussions with the academicians, labour law practitioners and some selected Union leaders were streamlined to collect information as to the oretical and practical problems of the women workers.  Moreover the dailies as legal journals are also extracted and utilize as valuable information for this study.  Various recommendations made by the law commissions have been referred to for eliciting the views for legislative reformations.  Finally the study is partly a result of the oretical research and more reliance is placed on the opinion of the text book writers and other authorities.

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