Examples of how women in Southwest Asia enjoyed greater gender equality than did women in South Asia between 600 and 1450

This influences have brought about the positive changes for women in Southwest Asia, first the Modernization, Western influence and Technology, Although many women in the Southwest Asia experience some form of oppression, what "fact" remains with regard to the recognition and application of women's rights that There is great variation in the rights of women in Southwest Asia. Then The women in South Asia "subalterns" have published five volumes of essays, but they include only one contribution on Indian women (Spivak 1987). The following survey attempts to indicate the diverse situations of women in South Asia. But it makes regrettable compromises because of space and because of the bias of current scholarship that deals primarily with north India and the social frameworks associated with Hinduism and Islam.