An action plan to emplement World Bank's strategies.

During the period 1972-73 to 2004-05 in rural India, the total number of workers expanded more in the non-farm sector than the farm sector with the rise in male workers being sharper than that of female workers. This enquir,y primarily based on NSS data, throws up ample evidence of the...

Review of Writing the Women’s Movement: A Reader Edited by Mala Khullar; Zuban (in collaboration with EWHA Women’s University Seoul).

The Seventh National Conference of the Women’s Movements in India was unique in several ways. For one, women’s groups worked relentlessly over the last eight years to make this conference happen. Since the last conference at Ranchi in 1998, most people believed that the series of...

This essay mainly examines the relationship between feminism and nationalism as a point from which it looks at South Asian feminist scholarship. The historical circumstances in their respective countries, have forced many South Asian feminists to interrogate their own nation states and the idea...

The 2nd and 3rd NGO Alternative Report on CEDAW -- INDIA has just been submitted to the UN CEDAW Committee and is coming up for review in January 2007 in New York. Each of the chapters in the Reports point to the widespread practices of discrimination and social exclusion of women and provide...

Some of the historical milestones of the Indian women's movement and some of the challenges for the future are pointed out. Such questions are vital, for the current fluid socio-economic and political conditions (arising out of the changing global power equation, interdependence and identity...

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...

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 year 2000 in the Indian National Sample...

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...