In India, for ages Hindu women faced discrimination within the families w.r.t their property rights. Before … independence women’s property was divided into 2 heads, stridhan & woman’s estate. Some restrictions were there on her power of … by the Supreme Court in recent judgement of 2020.This paper aims to study the women’s property rights before independence …

Economic participation of women in the labour force or as entrepreneurs is low compared to peers and has declined over … factors are important - family status increases if women stay home, house work has become more attractive than poorly paid … market work as husband’s incomes have risen; and safety concerns and poor infrastructure keep women from market work …

This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policymaking in India through a re … women in rural India, and was inexplicably shut down in 2014. We argue that a combination of political philosophy, electoral … programmes such as Mahila Samakhya, which called for a long and messy process of collectivization of the most marginalized women …

adequate collateral limits women entrepreneurs' ability to access formal finance, leaving them torely on informal sources … gender gaps in financial access. Results suggest that anincrease in women entrepreneurs access to formal credit results in …

Gender gaps in leadership roles may be reduced by increasing the number of women in career stages that typically … precede high-status positions. This can occur by increasing the supply of experienced women, inspiring new female candidates … for these positions, and/or changing beliefs about women as leaders. In this study, we investigate whether and how adding …

We document the political participation of women in Indian democracy by comparing the turnout of women voters to men in … in the gender bias in voting over time. In particular, we find that the sex ratio of voters (the number of women voters … Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. (3) This decline is solely driven by the dramatic increase in women participation in the …