| The movement for the improvement of the legal status of women was an integral part of the general movement for the emancipation of women and was inspired by the equalitarian idea. The marriage laws, the property laws and the personal laws are some of the legal methods by which woman can be made subordinate to man. The social reformers and in the later phases women themselves realised the obstacles in the way of full freedom and free development of women and therefore they advanced demands for improving their legal status also. |