The poor women in developing countries are burdened with the dual responsibility of taking care of housework and the need to supplement household income to meet the subsistence needs. The on-going flexibalisation process world over has no doubt created new jobs, most of them informal, but they...

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...

The presentation shows the consequences of child marriage, how to prevent child marriage. [Power Point Presentation].

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.