have the potential to positively influence the quantity and quality of women’s participation in agriculture in India …’s North Eastern Region. Women in agriculture in this part of the country, are going to get more and more employments both in … bring in miseries to the women folks. However, in the long run, women in this region are going to gain the lion’s share of …

‘threatening’ planning for Women in Development (WID) to the more ‘confrontational’ gender planning with its aspiring goal of …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …. This development has been informed by a remarkable though gradual shift in the perception about women, from the stature of …

ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around … barriers are linked negatively to the start-up decision, stronger perceptions of financial barriers among women are having a …

Although at the beginning of the 21st century, over 95 percent of all countries in the world have granted women the … right to vote and the right to stand for election (Ballington & Karam, 2005), gender equality in terms of representation in … representation of women at the level of the smallest unit of Philippine government—the village or barangay. Data comparison—within a …

discussed and different coping strategies employed by women in management outlined over the period. A number of metaphors … place boundaries around women's managerial aspirations. The study finds that three types of gendered lenses typically depict … appropriately capture the essence of gender struggles and inequality over the three stages of the study: early (1995 …

to cover production costs. · Poor decision-making and management of farming activities. · Limited beneficiary involvement … experience of beneficiaries. · Limited financial management skills. …

the same quantity of farm products. Historically, women have been the managers of natural resources as they are dependent … rendered them scarce. The rural women collect over 28% of all energy consumed in India in the form of firewood. Most of the 140 …-scale migration to urban areas. Women are being forced to take up more drudgerous jobs as a source of livelihood as most of the …