- INTRODUCTION
“Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.”- Junot Diaz2
Fight for rights of the women may be difficult to trace in history but it can be stated certitude
that there were lone and vocal voices at many times raising voices for rights of women and equal
treatment. Initially, in 1792, in England, Mary Wollstonecraft in “A Vindication of the Rights of
Women” advanced a spirited plea for claiming equality for, “the Oppressed half the Species”. Status
of women in different human societies of the world is different. Gender justice, if simply put, refers to
equality between the sexes. Gender justice is correlation of social, economic, political, environmental,
cultural and educational factors. These are the pre requisites of achieving gender justice. In almost
all the present and contemporary societies, it is discriminatory and prejudicial. Nearly all human
societies in different parts of the world are male-dominated. Aristotle’s answer to the question, who
rules the State-is the man, but why does he control and why not woman? Because woman are naturally
inferior. They are meant for procreation. Man provides the form, woman the matter for this man.3Thus
it indirectly clarifies the procreation and sexual needs of man. However, on the other hand, the basic
theme of adultery is sexual relations outside marriage. It is an anti-social and illegal act. It consists in
having carnal knowledge of a married woman with knowledge of the fact that, without the consent or
connivance of her husband.4
This paper thus attempts to examine the position of wife which has not been discussed under
this provision and that it lacks in the agency of bringing charges under this section. Thus, such
problems faced by the women in society should be given due weightage and the laws should aim at
safeguarding their interests thus marching towards gender equality.
ADULTERY WITHIN THE FRAME OF GENDER JUSTICE: TIME TORECONSIDER.
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