How have the women's movements made the presence of women in every moment felt and more women participation in various fields? Discuss. (Answer in 350 words)

- How have the women's movements made the presence of women in every moment felt and more women participation in various fields? Discuss. (Answer in 350 words)
Introduction
The women's movement changed what could be said in public before it changed who sat in the chair.
Body
1. The means the movements used: Four. Evidence: the Committee on the Status of Women in India's report Towards Equality in 1974 documented a declining sex ratio and falling work participation, and shifted the agenda from welfare to equality. Cases turned into campaigns: the Mathura judgment provoked the open letter of four law teachers in 1979 and the amendment of the evidence law that followed; Bhanwari Devi's case produced the Vishaka guidelines of 1997 and then the workplace Act of 2013; Roop Kanwar's death produced a fresh sati statute; the Delhi gang rape of 2012 produced the Verma Committee and the criminal law amendment of 2013. Autonomous groups and journals such as Saheli and Manushi did the consciousness-raising. And working women organised, above all in Ela Bhatt's Self Employed Women's Association from 1972.
2. How the presence of women was made felt: By moving harms out of the private and into the public: dowry death, cruelty by a husband, sexual harassment and violence within marriage became offences with names, which they had not been. By insisting that women's work be counted, so that unpaid domestic labour now appears in the national time use survey. And by occupying public space in person: the anti-arrack agitation in Andhra villages, the women who held Shaheen Bagh, the women's contingents at the farmers' protest.
3. Participation across the various fields: In politics, the 73rd and 74th Amendments reserved a third of panchayat and municipal seats, with many states raising it to half, so over a million women hold elected office, and the 106th Amendment extends the principle to Parliament and the assemblies; women now vote in proportions equal to or above men's. In education, girls have reached parity in school enrolment and women are close to half of those in higher education. In work, the armed forces now grant permanent commissions to women officers and admit them to the National Defence Academy, and company law requires a woman director on the board.
4. Where the gain remains thin: Female labour force participation fell for years and remains among the lowest in the world. The elected woman is often the sarpanch's wife in practice. The movement's own composition has been challenged: Sharmila Rege argued that Indian feminism spoke for Dalit women rather than with them. And violence has not fallen.
Conclusion
Women are now present and counted; the unfinished work is that presence has not converted into equal participation.