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As institutions of higher education engaged in teaching, research and the spread of knowledge, (Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) are well placed to reflect on, become sensitized to and oppose all forms of discrimination and harassment, especially sexual harassment on campuses across the...
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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 …
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The presentation shows the consequences of child marriage, how to prevent child marriage. [Power Point Presentation].
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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. …
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In September, world leaders will assemble in New York to review progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Ahead of the ensuing discussions, we examine how individual countries are faring towards achieving the highly ambitious MDG targets. We outline a new MDG Progress Index,...
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This paper considers the effects of contemporary restructuring of women and men’s employment in rural south India … alongside ongoing efforts to recast India’s poor rural women as entrepreneurs. This study takes advantage of data from the …
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This background paper discusses the conceptual and empirical linkages between trade liberalization and gender equality in the context of development; and the impact of the WTO and PTA/FTAs on gender. It then provides a cross section of recent results on this linkage in India. Providing an...
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While the decline in infrastructure, functionality, quality and attitudes affect all children, given the prevailing social inequalities and hierarchies, these factors affect poor children and among them girls much more that they affect the more privileged sections of society, who increasingly...
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The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
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This paper tries to advance the perspective that the poor and the marginalized in society lack a sense of “participatory equity,†by building a new model where a person’s community identity matters, ex post, in determining if he or she will be poor, even though (unlike in the...
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