address gender inequality and more effectively combat HIV and AIDS. …

Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by … underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This … article discusses several mechanisms through which, as countries grow, gender gaps narrow. …

prioritize the needs of women in order to work towards gender equality. For example, in the health sector, males and females have …The term gender budgeting has become a catch phrase to describe various government initiatives that seek to address … gender issues in the domain of public expenditure and policy. In India, the strategic framework for gender sensitivity in …

This paper examines the benefits that accrue to households by financial empowerment of women, but also laments the need … for more radical approaches to counter what might seem like inertia to fully engage women empowerment in micro finance. …

Although a lot of scholarly attention has gone into issues concerning women for more than three decades, little work … look into the interests of women as discriminated, marginalized and oppressed sections of society. While the Indian State …, modifications, and renewal in these structures and formations from time to time have been influenced by the struggles of women and …

Gender discrimination manifests itself as violence in the family, community, and society. It takes the forms of female … affecting body and mind of women. The present study attempts to examine the causes and extent of domestic violence as well as …

In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for … education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences in returns to education in these …