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The role of women in Sri Lankan society is a topic that has been debated and fought over for several centuries. During the British colonial period, for example, a significant strand of nationalist, anticolonial agitation centred on the role and status of Ceylon women, both within and outside the home.
remember that Sri Lankan women have also sought to counter violence, that they have collectively and publicly spoken for peace, as women, and more specifically, as mothers and feminists.
Sri Lanka attracted a great deal of attention in 1960 when Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world’s first woman prime minister. This was widely interpreted, in Sri Lanka and outside, as an indicator of the role and position of women in Sri Lankan society, a position of equality and independence. (1986, p.109)
The traditional society of Sri Lanka ascribed to women a multiple role within a close-knit family structure and kinship group, in a background of an agro-based economic system.
1 wrz 2002 · The current study examined the role of the type of honour endorsement (masculine, feminine, family, moral integrity) in the tolerance to intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in Sri...
Sri Lanka was the first nation in the world to elect a female head of government, Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Bandaranaike won the election in 1960 after S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, the preceding leader who was also her husband, was murdered by a spy.
1 gru 1993 · This paper will examine issues of concern to women in Sri Lanka, including women's legal rights, the economic status of women, violence against women and legal recourse, internal flight alternatives and the activities of women's organizations.
