Gender discrimination manifests itself as violence in the family, community, and society. It takes the forms of female … affecting body and mind of women. The present study attempts to examine the causes and extent of domestic violence as well as …

In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for … education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences in returns to education in these …

Panel studies based on the same set of sample households or individuals at two points of time 5 or 10 years apart are … were the same as those enumerated in 1999. Thus, SMS provides comparable panel data for about 125 Panchayats, about 5 … thousand households and about 14 thousand individuals at an interval of 5 years. Analysis of these panel data is the objective …

This paper draws upon a selection of narratives from interviews with over 150 less skilled emigrant and returnee women … women, narrowing the material base from which aspiring migrants are drawn and rendering their agency suspect but emigrant … women maneuver local and family patriarchy by foregrounding the failure of marital provisioning and create the space to go. …

Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by … underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This … article discusses several mechanisms through which, as countries grow, gender gaps narrow. …

changes produce, ‘fall back’ on traditional norms regarding gender and domestic roles. This makes the bargaining situation …