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, Satyavari 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 Gujarati 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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