Women Related Legal Rights
1.Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act -2005
2.Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act 1986
3.Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956
4. Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act 1987
5.Dowry Prohibition Act 1961
6.Maternity Benefit Act 1961
7.Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971
8.Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act 1994
9.Equal Remuneration Act 1976
10.Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act (1939) grants a Muslim wife the right to seek the dissolution of her marriage.
11.Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act (1986)protects the rights of Muslim women who have been divorced by or have obtained divorce from their husbands.

12.Family Courts Act (1984) provides for the establishment of Family Courts for speedy settlement of family disputes.
13.Indian Penal Code (1860) contains provisions to protect Indian women from dowry death, rape, kidnapping, cruelty and other offences.
14.Code of Criminal Procedure (1973) has certain safeguards for women like obligation of a person to maintain his wife, arrest of woman by female police and so on.
15.Indian Christian Marriage Act (1872) contain provisions relating to marriage and divorce among the Christian community.
16.Legal Services Authorities Act (1987) provides for free legal services to Indian women.
17.Hindu Marriage Act (1955) introduced monogamy and allowed divorce on certain specified grounds. It provided equal rights to Indian man and woman in respect of marriage and divorce.
18.Hindu Succession Act (1956) recognizes the right of women to inherit parental property equally with men.
19.Minimum Wages Act (1948) does not allow discrimination between male and female workers or different minimum wages for them.
20.Mines Act (1952) and Factories Act (1948) prohibits the employment of women between 7 P.M. to 6 A.M. in mines and factories and provides for their safety and welfare.
21. The following other legislation’s also contain certain rights and safeguards for women:
a. Employees’ State Insurance Act (1948)
b. Plantation Labour Act (1951)
c. Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act (1976)
d. Legal Practitioners (Women) Act (1923)
e. Indian Succession Act (1925)
f. Indian Divorce Act (1869)
g. Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act (1936)
h. Special Marriage Act (1954)
i. Foreign Marriage Act (1969)
J. Indian Evidence Act (1872)
22.Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (1956).
23.National Commission for Women Act (1990) provided for the establishment of a National Commission for Women to study and monitor all matters relating to the constitutional and legal rights and safeguards of women.
24.Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal). Act (2013) provides protection to women from sexual harassment at all workplaces both in public and private sector, whether organized or unorganized.

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