In the paper there is a use of nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify … reserved for women heads: political and administrative inexperience make such councils more vulnerable to bureaucratic capture …. Our findings highlight capacity building as necessary for bolstering the effectiveness of political quotas for women. …

of RTI/STI among the rural women in Haryana. Half of the rural women have no knowledge of the mode of transmission of …

religion mediate access and returns to education of men and women. The effort is to discuss whether, the capabilities approach … in this paper is a comparison between the knowledge generated through use of traditional data sources to measure access … and returns to education compared with knowledge about the dynamics of capability formation generated through a mixture of …

The purpose of this study to help shed light on the entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and enterprise growth in Wenzhou …

against women, quotas can reduce gender discrimination in the long-term. …Despite significant advances in education and political participation, women remain underrepresented in leadership … positions in politics and business across the globe. In many countries, policy-makers have responded by introducing gender …

women in terms of their gender stereotyping and their representations of the ideal woman. The study points to the popular … messages communicated through commercials regarding women, and the gender insensitivity of television programs around …In a context where despite high levels of literacy and economic independence, women in Kerala are still expected to …

associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult … women. [WOrking Paper No. 41]. URL: [http://www.mse.ac.in/pub/working%20paper%2041.pdf]. …