The book is divided into four sections. The first section of the book highlights various forms of violence and discrimination against women. It discusses issues of crucial importance such as female foeticide and infanticide, poor educational facilities for women, health-care, nutrition and restrictions on women in matters of inheriting property. It also points out that a significant portion of women’s work is unpaid, why such work is not considered for calculating GDP, and quantifies the negative fallout of this on the global economic growth rate. The second section deals with the challenges faced by women at the workplace and discrimination based on gender. It brings out the role of women in the workplace, the status of women workers, how they are usually restricted to the peripheral jobs and the barriers in reaching top positions in the organization. The third section gives a few examples of gender discrimination worldwide. It brings to light the status of working women in America, Singapore, Middle East, North Africa and India. The final section of the book discusses various initiatives taken to eliminate such discrimination and the road ahead. It talks about the role men themselves are playing in eliminating violence against women and also about how initiatives like gender budgeting empower women.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR G. Sushuma
G Sushuma holds a bachelor's degree in commerce from Madras University and an MDBA in Finance from Symbiosis University, Pune. She has also done the GNIIT program from NIIT. She is presently working as a Research Associate at Icfai Business School Research Center, Chennai. Prior to joining Icfai, she served software and BPO industries for about two years. She contributes articles to books and magazines published by the Icfai University Press. Her areas of interest include finance and information technology.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jayshree Bose
Jayshree Bose is a first class postgraduate and National Merit Scholarship holder from Calcutta University. She has had a prolonged career in the Mumbai media circles with national financial dailies such as Business Standard and Financial Express and magazines such as Businessworld. She served there for over 16 years in senior capacities such as Associate Editor and Assistant Editor, and has been a prolific writer on topics related to banking, insurance and the economy, which are her prime areas of interest. During her tenure at Mumbai, some of her articles led to a series of financial sector reforms. She was earlier a consultant with the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), an ICICI Bank-sponsored Business School and Research Institute at Chennai. She has also written and edited books on banking and finance for KPMG and Jardine Fleming and brought out special issues of the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) Journal on a turnkey basis. Jayshree Bose is now a Faculty Member-Consulting Editor with Icfai Books, a division of the Icfai University Press, where her work involves writing articles and editing books on her special areas of interest such as banking, insurance, the economy and business strategy. She is also a regular contributor to professional magazines on insurance and banking.
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