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Gender Equality as Smart Economics: A World Bank Group Gender Action Plan (Fiscal Years 2007-10)
eSocialSciences; World Bank - 2006
An action plan to emplement World Bank's strategies.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341819
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Affirming Diversities, Resisting Divisiveness: Seventh National Conference on Women’s Movements in India
Gopal, Meena - eSocialSciences - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250485
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India: Second NGO Shadow Report on CEDAW: Executive Summary
eSocialSciences; National Alliance of Women - 2007
discrimination and social exclusion of women and provide evidence in the form of statistics and media reports on the prevalence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487715
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Different Voices, Divergent Struggles: An Overview of the Contemporary Indian Women's Movement and its Challenges
Poonacha, Veena - eSocialSciences - 2007
Some of the historical milestones of the Indian women's movement and some of the challenges for the future are pointed … global power equation, interdependence and identity politics), have posed new challenges to women's struggles. [Chairperson …'s address on 27-12-07, 4 p.m., Rm. 405, Patkar Hall Bldg., SNDT Women's University]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528207
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Book Review: Discourses on Women’s Movement: Theory and Action
Poonacha, Veena - eSocialSciences - 2007
Review of Writing the Women’s Movement: A Reader Edited by Mala Khullar; Zuban (in collaboration with EWHA Women’s University Seoul).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250180
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Archiving the Nation –State in Feminist Praxis: A South Asian Perspective
Chakravarti, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543102
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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].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540528
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State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Executive Summary
Prakash, Padma; IKF, IRIS Knowledge Foundation - eSocialSciences - 2013
The State of the Urban Youth India 2012: Employment, Livelihoods, Skills developed and produced by IRIS Knowledge Foundation, Mumbai on a commission from the UN-HABITAT Global Urban Youth Research Network of which it is part, is a first attempt to pull together a data and knowledge base on and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945281
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Book Review: Women Workers, Unite!
Bhowmik, Sharit - eSocialSciences - 2007
Review of Ela R Bhat's 'We are Poor, But So Many Oxford University Press, 2006.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250225
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Human Cost of Making Bricks
Kant, Nalini - eSocialSciences - 2006
In India, thousands of women, men and children slave away in the brick kilns. Common to almost all brick kilns is the … use of violence, over or implicit. Women and girls, however, are profoundly affected. Many girls and young women are raped … poverty. This report, focusing on the widespread exploitation of brick making families, reviews the situation of women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487763