| The Indian print media’s liberal and reformist legacy of the pre-independence period has helped address women’s issues. journalists have striven hard to give women's issues a legitimacy so as to bring them within the ambit of "what makes news." yet, several media researches conducted over a period of time continue to reveal that most women's issues remain within the confines of inside pages and analyzed only if they have socio-political implications and not independently as women’s issues. However, only political freedom in terms of universal suffrage did not mean that other women’s issues took centre stage. “Interaction between media and women’s activists and groups have brought these issues to the forefront and generate public awareness especially about ‘less complicated and contentious ones – such as education, healthcare, income-generation, savings and credit and to some extent, legal action. |