Editing Women's rights (section)

==== India ====
{{Main|Women in India}}

Women during the early [[Vedic period]]<ref name="infochange_women">{{cite news | last = Madhok | first = Sujata |title=Women: Background & Perspective |url=http://www.infochangeindia.org/WomenIbp.jsp |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080724121920/http://www.infochangeindia.org/WomenIbp.jsp | work = InfoChange India |archive-date=24 July 2008 | url-status = usurped |access-date=24 December 2006 }}</ref> enjoyed [[gender equality|equal status]] with men in all aspects of life.<ref name="vedam_towards_gender">{{cite book | last = Mishra | first = R. C. | title = Women in India: towards gender equality | publisher = Authorspress | location = New Delhi | year = 2006 | isbn = 9788172733063 }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20101029125524/https://www.vedamsbooks.com/no43902.htm Details.]</ref> Works by ancient Indian grammarians such as [[Patanjali]] and [[Katyayana]] suggest that women were educated in the early Vedic period.<ref>''Varttika'' by [[Katyayana]], 125, 2477</ref><ref>Comments to Ashtadhyayi 3.3.21 and 4.1.14 by [[Patanjali]]</ref> Rigvedic verses suggest that women married at a mature age and were probably free to select their own husbands in a practice called [[swayamvar]] or live-in relationship called [[Gandharva marriage]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Majumdar |first1=R.C. |last2=Pusalker |first2=A.D. |author-link1=R. C. Majumdar |year=1951 |contribution=Chapter XX: Language and literature |editor-last1=Majumdar |editor-first1=R.C. |editor-last2=Pusalker |editor-first2=A.D. |editor-link1=R. C. Majumdar |title= The history and culture of the Indian people, volume I, the Vedic age |page=394 |publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan |location=Bombay |oclc=500545168 |title-link=The History and Culture of the Indian People }}</ref>