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The empowerment of Rural Women is crucial for the development of Rural Bharat. Women’s equal participation in decision making is not only a demand for simple justice or democracy but can also be seen as a necessary condition for women’s interests to be taken into account. Without the active participation of women and the incorporation of women perspective at all levels of decision making the goals of equality, development and peace can not be achieved. ...
Social work and social welfare are attempts of mitigation and alleviation of suffering of people, changing their mental attitudes, raising their standards of living and enthusiasing them to become knowledge seekers. Through well-established concepts and methods social workers sincerely strive to bring about physical, mental and economic development of ailing, suffering, poor and backwards. Towards this aim the government endeavours to bring about overall social ...
Women’s though created equal by the creator, were subject to numerous discriminations that were putting them on a lower stratum than men. They were denied voting rights, denied equal pay for equal work, denied literacy, and were subjected to various gender-based and social biases. The position of women in developing countries was more pitiable. These resulted in frustration among women all over the world against exiting system and they started a movement to ...
Health is a basic need along with food, shelter and education. The health status of a population is now considered an important indicator of development and health is increasingly being seen as a development issue rather than just medical one. Health interventions can lead to economic growth and reduce inequity in developing countries. Health care can be divided into a number of different branches. Conventionally, these include hospital care, primary care and ...
Empowerment of women is critical to the socio-economic progress of the community and bringing women to the mainstream of national development has been a major concern of the government. The seventy-third Constutional Amendment was effected in the hope that it would lead to better governance and provide political space to the disadvantaged sections of society like SCs, STs and women. The presence of women in large numbers in Panchayati Raj Institutions will not ...
The two principal operations of public services in a library are circulation and reference services. These two services constitute the domain upon which satisfaction of needs of patron depends and performance of the library is judged. Therefore, the person controlling the affairs of library, i.e., the librarian, must be well-versed and thorough with these two concepts among other related aspects. Looking to the dearth of good and quality text on the ...
The movement for improving women's status all over the world has always emphasised education as the most significant instrument for changing women's subjugated position in society. Towards this end, government has enacted numerous laws and has created many facilities for the benefit of women. Education brings mental and personality development of women which results in making her more efficient and active unit in the process of social, economic, political and ...
Understanding how diseases are spread and how to reduce the risks of fresh infection are essential if children are to be cared for safely and healthily. Knowledge of preventive measures and childhood immunization schedule is also important in order to save children from diseases. "Social Work in Child Health Care" is an attempt to provide all basic information on child health care to make health worker an expert. In this endeavour, the book makes ...
Women's well-being depends on their empowerment--Social, cultural and political. During less than three decades, the transformation of women's consciousness and of societal values in most societies have resulted in fundamental consequences encompassing political power to the structure of personality of women. This book addresses the issues in women's empowerment by exploring the conditions, actions and accomplishments of women. The countries considered in the ...
Human rights are essential rights for dignified human existence encompassing rights for fulfilling basic needs as well as rights for adequate development of human personality. The proclamation of Universal Declaration of Human Rights by United Nations was epoch making opening initiatives to be taken by various countries for protection and upholding human rights. The present book deals with human rights in general and Women's Human Rights in particular both in ...