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Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure are two gender-based indicators provided by the United Nations … better performing gender. This can lead to further additions to ‘missing women’. A correction is proposed to capture this …
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Modernisation necessarily leads to the emergence of dowry as a direct transfer to the groom ("groom-price"). The historical instances of dowry can be classified according to the schema implied by the model. The implications of the model are also tested using current data from Pakistan; a country...
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efforts have been made to incorporate mainstream gender in socio-economic policies, including gender budgeting initiatives …. The paper analyses the scope and limitations of gender budgeting initiatives in the context of the fiscal decentralisation … budgetary reforms in Morocco through a gender lens. It goes on to explain the future directions of local level gender responsive …
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'Fair and Lovely’ fairness cream (FAL) advertisements and plays by Jana Natya Manch (Janam) are cultural representations that make particular claims about Indian women’s value and what they value. For FAL marketing and advertising professionals, women are potential consumers. It is...
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This is an attempt to investigate gender issues in the mining sector in India with a view to understand how these … understand the gender issues at play, the study focuses not only on women’s experiences but also analyses how they are utterly …
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gender analysis. These absences have discursive and material implications for tackling women’s equality in a society in … view issues of gender, sect, class and colonial state formation. The tentative intersectional theoretical framework …
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This paper is about deconstructing the middle class perception of the domain of the ‘folk’ in this region. With these questions, the paper sets out an agenda for writing the history of rain and weather in the context of north Bihar. Dak Vachans are conceptualized as a proverbial...
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Consumer Expenditure Survey .They therefore provide an opportunity to review the changes in the size and structure of the work … this level of aggregation, they have considered separately the four segments differentiated by gender and rural …-urban location: rural males; rural females; urban males; and, urban females. The changes in the size of the work force and the …
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This paper uses political reservations for women in India to study the impact of women’s leadership on policy decisions. In 1998, one third of all leadership positions of Village Councils in West Bengal were randomly selected to be reserved for a woman: in these councils only women could...
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