Women's studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. It often includes feminist theory, women's history (e.g. a history of women's suffrage) and social history, women's fiction, women's health, and the feminist and gender studies-influenced practice of most of the humanities and social sciences
The major thrust areas of studies would be
Generating awareness towards women's issues
Gender sensitivity
Women's empowerment
ex-pression of the women's voice
Socio-cultural factors and marginalization
Legal rights of /for women
Restructuring women's role in history
Critical analysis of stereotyping
Many women universities like Mother Teresa Women's University kodaikanal offers PG programme in women studies