The Kerala Act of 1995 that created a Commission to improve the status of women in the State

Background

The Kerala Women's Commission Act, 1995 is listed by the Kerala Legislative Assembly among its landmark social welfare legislation.
The Act provided for the constitution of a Commission to improve the status of women in the State.
The Commission's work, as the Assembly's record sets it out, is to enquire into the unfair practices affecting women and to facilitate the redressal of their grievances.
The same record singles out for special mention The Kerala State Commission for Backward Classes Act, 1993 and The Kerala Women's Commission Act, 1995.
Both are Acts of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, passed under the State's own legislative power, and not Central laws.
The Assembly places this body of law under the head Social Welfare, alongside measures such as The Kerala Money Lenders Act,1958 and The Kerala Children Act, 1972.