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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - eSocialSciences - 2010
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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Women in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation: A Study in the Context of the Debate on the Women's Reservation Bill
Lema-Rewal, Stephanie Tawa - eSocialSciences - 2008
quotas – 33 per cent of seats - for women have been implemented since 1995. [CSH Occassional Paper No. 2] …
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The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India
Anderson, Siwan; Ray, Debraj - eSocialSciences - 2012
Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in India. Estimates suggest that more than 25 … million women are "missing". Sex selection at birth and the mistreatment of young girls are widely regarded as key … explanations. A decomposition of missing women by age across the states of India is done. The state-wise variation in the …
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Research Study on Role of Tribal Women Wage Earner in Ensuring Family Food Security in Scheduled Areas of Rajasthan in Changing Environmental and Economic Scenario
Jaipur, Maharana Pratap Adhyayan Evam Jan Kalyan Sansthan - eSocialSciences - 2011
conducted in these villages included one questionnaire for village information and another questionnaire for selected 20 women …
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Mortality, the Family and the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Gillespie, Thomas; Preston, Samuel - eSocialSciences - 2011
Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR), a population-representative survey collected in Aceh and North Sumatra …, parents and children, while women helped their children. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/311.pdf]. …
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Health Education
Dube, Nandini - eSocialSciences - 2012
There is an uneven geographical distribution of health workers. The shortage of health workers is compounded by the fact that their skills, competencies, clinical experience, and expectations are often poorly suited to the health needs of the populations they serve. All such problems are taken...
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Working with Existing Systems: Lessons from INHP
CARE, CARE - eSocialSciences - 2009
Engaging and strengthening the ICDS and Health programs of the government was a major approach of the two component projects under the RACHNA program, INHP-II and Chayan. Of the two, the INHP interventions reached massive scale primarily through the ICDS program and were subject to a large...
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Delivering (sustainable) Services on Scale : Anywhere
Shukla, Prachi - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper addresses issues related to public private partnerships that can enable delivery of comprehensive health care to rural communities.
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Children Out of Focus....Interim Budget at a Glance 2009-10
HAQCRC, HAQ Centre for Child Rights - eSocialSciences - 2009
Examines whether there are any funds for children related activities.
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Gender Planning, Budgeting and Auditing
Vijayan, Aleyamma; J, Daya; S, Jayasree; S, Chandrika C; … - eSocialSciences - 2008
This manual is intended to help local governments to uphold the human rights of women, by involving them in identifying … processes of gender planning, budgeting and auditing in the general projects and in the Women's Component Plan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487670