The Planning Commission's working group on Women's Agency and Empowerment have suggested that all assets acquired by a married couple or a couple living together should be classified as joint property and should be divided equally in the event of separation or desertion. The panel asserted that a woman needs to be recognized as an equal partner in a marriage, and her contribution to the household must be valued.
In a country where gender inequality has long-defined society and its laws, and the wealthy can use pre-nups to protect their assets on the pegs of fidelity and faithfulness, it is also a society where most women are not gainfully employed, and have no sense of security. Women often give up their careers and means of livelihood when they start a family, trading high-income jobs to be stay-at-home mothers – a role with no monetary rewards. 
Is this a fair law whose time has come?
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* Panel wants a couple's assets to be treated as joint property
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The Big Question: Equal division of property?
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