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India News: By Kartavi SatyarthiIt Can Help Address Disparities Built Into Existing Laws And Social Mores That Relegate Women To The Margins And Deny Them AgencyS.

Personal laws, such as those related to marriage and divorce, treat women as powerless and in need of protection. Concepts like stridhan and mehr, intended to empower women, often fall short. Lack of consideration for womens agency is most evident in property ownership, where women receive unequal inheritance shares. Reforms, including the implementation of a Uniform Civil Code, could address these disparities and provide women with equal rights.

There is an interesting and rare exception in the Hindu Succession Act to the rule that a word will normally have the same definition throughout a statute.

Historian Dr Zareer Masani, who fled Mumbai in the 1970s due to the persecution he faced there as a gay man, said he thinks Daley should stick to swimming and leave the history to the historians.