Answer:
One
of the most important features of the Civil Disobedience Movement was the large
scale participation of women. During Gandhiji's Salt March, thousands of women
participated in marches, manufactured salt and picketed foreign cloth and
liquor shops. Many went to jail.
In urban areas, these women were from high caste educated family e.g.,
Sarojini Naidu, Satyavati Devi, Kamala Nehru, Vijaylakshmi Pandit, Kasturba
Gandhi, etc. In rural areas, women came from rich peasant households.
Bengal being the nerve centre of female education in India,
increased the women's participation in nationalism. In 1930, women rallied
before Bethune College, Calcutta in support of Gandhiji's Civil Disobedience
Movement.
In Bombay, large section of women of Gujarari community
was influenced by Gandhiji's idealism and participated in National Movement.
But all these participation were symbolic, women were not allowed to hold any
position of authority for a long time.
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