The Right To Property: Tracing The Women’s Right To Property Across USA, UK & India

Somya Luthra, B.Com. LL.B. (Hons.), Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

ABSTRACT

Land, property, and housing rights for women are crucial to achieving their rights to equality and a decent quality of living. Having safe access to land, property, and housing promotes a woman's independence and autonomy, provides for her and her family's basic needs, and empowers her to endure some of life's most challenging obstacles. Existing gender disparities in both the public and private sectors impede women's capacity to exercise their land, property, and housing right This article seeks to trace the intellectual waves and political and social forces that shaped the outlines of the controversial discussions surrounding the establishment of the basic right to property. It compares and analyses how the right to property was developed in the jurisdictions of USA, UK and India. The article concludes by highlighting the necessity to uniformize the property law for women in India.