(post-)Foucaultian thinking. We argue that Foucault and his very concepts of discourse and power provide a perspective on … argumentieren, dass Foucault, insbesondere seine Konzepte von Diskurs und Macht, eine Perspektive auf soziale Bewegungen und Protest …

Efforts by international development agencies to design gender-sensitive projects have sharpened their focus on women …’s participation in community-level water governance. In some cases, such goals have enhanced women’s self-confidence and developed … better understanding of the gap between women’s motivation to participate and their ability or agency to do so. It highlights …

This paper discusses the position of women in the civil services in South Asia (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh). The … majority of women are in lower level positions. It is rare to find women in higher and mid-level positions and in professional … discrimination from the civil services of these countries, women continue to fight against a variety of odds to attain career success …

villages and towns were studied. Deaths of women in reproductive age group (15-49), reported by the district for the same year …

conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and …

traditional patriarchal canal management system by institutionalizing women as formal decision-makers and members of the … irrigation labor force in northern India. Based on a survey of 592 women in rural Himachal Pradesh, this paper quantitatively … analyses how these policies affect women’s engagement in formal political processes. Results indicate that factors from the …

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not … increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that more women-owned establishments were created in the unorganized …