1 Introduction -- 2 Before NGOs: Women's Organizations in Colonial India -- 3 Politics of Women's Empowerment and Non-Governmental Organizations -- 4 NGO Activism and Women's Empowerment in India -- 5 Women’s Participation in Rural Local Governance of Bangladesh: Progress and Challenges -- 6...

"This book provides a detailed examination of the impact of globalisation on plantation labour, dominated by women labour, in India. The studies presented here highlight the perpetuation of low wages, inferior social status and low human development of workers in this sector and point out the...

The rise in the average age of women bearing their first child is a well-established demographic trend in recent decades. Postponed childbearing can have important consequences for the mothers and, at a macro level, for the country in which they live. Research has primarily focused on the effect...

We develop a framework for quantifying barriers to labor force participation (LFP) and entrepreneurship faced by women in India. We find substantial barriers to LFP, and higher costs of expanding businesses through the hiring of workers for women entrepreneurs. However, there is one area in...