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This book is our endeavour to chart the emerging trends in the issues of women, work and health against the dynamics of today's globalized world. These changes touch the various spheres of women's lives related to the fields of : Gender & Development, Gender, Work & Health, Sustainiability Development in South Asia. This book reflects the innovative thought processes of women across the world and the courage and determination manifested by ...
Papers presented at the Symposium on "Girls and Girlhoods at Threshold of Youth & Gender", held at Mumbai in November 2008. This volume is an outcome of three decades of deliberations on girls and girlhoods by the women's rights organizations in India. The symposium aimed to focus on girlhoods, generate information about them and create a platform for groups and individuals concerned abut the issues. It naturally included girls themselves. Girls ...
This book has adopted an interdisciplinary perspective to examine political economy of Gender and Empowerment. The discourses on gender implications of micro and macro realities by authors focus on women’s predicaments in the private and public spheres of life. It brings to the fore women’s agency in the midst of multifaceted hurdles posed by patriarchal powers. It shows how patriarchy thrives on control of women’s sexuality, fertility and ...
The main thrust of the theme is on several socio-economic problems being faced by the women. The economic parameters, their health and educational problems, rape laws and justice, globalisation and women’s question in India, women in decision-making and women’s movement in India have been meticulously discussed in this work. The book contains sixteen chapters, divided into three sections.
The Millennium Development Goals commit the international community to an expanded vision of development, one that vigorously promotes human development as the key to sustaining social and economic progress in all countries, and recognizes the importance of creating a global partnership for development. It is important to examine MDGs in the context of macro economic framework. The Millennium Development goals (MDGs) are Eradication of Poverty and Hunger, ...