(i) Women joined the Civil Disobedience Movement on a large-scale.
(ii) During Gandhiji’s salt march, thousands of women came out of their homes to listen to him.
(iii) They participated in protest marches and manufactured salt.
(iv) They picketed foreign cloth and liquor shops. Many went to jail.
(v) In urban areas, these women were from high-caste families and in rural areas they came from rich peasant households.
(vi) Moved by Gandhiji’s call, they began to see service to the nation as a sacred duty of women