policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and …Since the 1990s, India has seen robust economic growth, rising wages, steady fertility decline, increased urbanization … transitions, urban women's employment has refused to budge, never crossing the 25 percent mark. This paper fills a critical gap in …

livelihood constraints of the rural women they set out to support. This is a failing that might be due to the omission of women … Upper East and Northern Regions in Ghana, we explored women and men’s notions of the processes and outcomes of empowerment …. We began by understanding the basis of women’s disempowerment and confirmed its location within agricultural production …