Women in Kerala

Women in Kerala are able to be educated and have the opportunities that education affords them such as participating in politics, keeping up to date on news, reading religious texts, etc. Every Kerala girl or woman above the age of six can read and write. Women are largely educated and daughters are thought to be as prized as sons. Christian missionaries also influenced Malayali women in that they started schools available to girls from poor families.

Kerala has been praised for its treatment of women because of characteristics such as these. Kerala's women have become doctors and pilots, Supreme Court justices, ambassadors of India; they have shone in sport, in politics, in the armed forces. This website also contains Kerala Girl Images, Pictures and Videos.

Thiruvathirakali is an interesting expression of the Kerala culture. The attractively dressed Kerala women gather around a brightly lit brass lamp and clap their hands in rhythm with the songs they sing while they display enchanting footwork. The art form is typically a Keralite one in its essence, grandeur and simplicity. This folk dance is performed on certain religious occasions also. As a ritual it is performed on the Thiruvathira asterism in the month of Dhanu, according to the Malayalam calendar. It is on the same day that Lord Siva promised Goddess Parvati to make her his consort.

The Jeevapoorna Women Masons of Thrissur have revolutionized local expectations of what women can and cannot do.