The emergence of women studies as an academic discipline is the result of:

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• In which year did the women’s movement emerge and had a strong impact on colleges and universities to start women’s studies as an academic discipline?
• Who among the following feminists referred women’s studies to as ‘the academic arm of women’s movement, a potent instrument playing a deliberate and active role in the battle for people’s minds’ and ‘autonomy continues to be battle cry of both’?
• Which chairperson of the UGC gave a fresh perspective to women’s studies by widening the agenda of the programme, strengthening the role of the participants and giving greater academic credibility to the programme?
• The need for women’s studies was realized when concerned women and men noticed ______
• Women are often denied their social, cultural, economic and political rights leading to a decline in the condition of women. This gender based inequality against women is called
• The Research Centre for Women Studies (RCWS) in India was set up in
• The Centre for Women’s Development Studies (CWDS) in India was founded in
• In which year did the UGC bring out the guidelines for development of women studies in Indian Universities and Colleges ?
• The Indian Association for Women Studies (IAWS) was set up on
• The first national conference on women’s studies was held in the year