India. The 2005 Hindu Succession Act was legislated to protect women's rights to an equal share in ancestral property …

explores the range of actors that mobilize for/against gender equality policy change, with a particular focus on women … processes in three Asian countries (China, India and Indonesia) and on three different issues: violence against women, domestic …

section 1. Gender : current status -- section 2. Gender : some issues -- section 3. Policies towards gender empowerment … -- section 4. Gender and rural development -- section 5. Gender : select interventions for gender development …