Write an estimate on: Participation of Women in Civil Disobedience Movement
The participation of women in the Civil Disobedience Movement was an important feature which influenced many. 1. The program of the Civil Disobedience Movement incorporated the breaking of the Salt Laws, picketing of shops selling foreign goods and liquor, bonfire of cloth, refusal to pay taxes and avoidance of offices by the public officers and schools by the students. 2. A large number of women participated in large the Civil Disobedience Movement which was called by Gandhiji. 3. They participated in protest marches, manufactured salt, and picked foreign cloth and liquor shops. Many of them were put to jail by the police. Women at that time saw national service as a sacred duty.