Status of woman in the medieval Sikh Society and Guru Nanak

This empirical research paper attempts to study the status of woman in the medieval Sikh society. Development in any society can be gauged from the position woman occupies in that social order. In the course of the medieval times woman was in the degradation position. Guru Nanak, first Sikh Guru and founder of Sikh religion, however, put woman in an elevated position and treated men and women alike. In the religious and social affairs her involvement and standing was recognized. She was not allowed by the Sikh Gurus to be recognized as subjection of man and their saintly sayings protected her honour. She was documented as structure of society.