While the whole country was having a discussion on the upliftment of women, Tamilnadu propagates Women's Rights. Even before Periyar, the renowned Tamil Poet Barathiyar wrote that 'women are as equal as men' in one of his poems during the period in which women were denied the right to education. In the same way, Tamilnadu was the first state in the nation to sanction Thirty three percent reservation for women in local bodies elections which paved way for 40,000 women to become representatives in local bodies.