The development experience of women is not uniform in India. T his is very true in the case of the development of women in Kerala. Women’s development has gained greater significance in the context of globalisation. Doubtless to say, globaisation has become the catch word of the day with its pros and cons as well and this edited work ‘Women And Economic Reform: Kerala Experience’ deals with the burning issues of women in the areas like education, employment and empowerment in the state of Kerala. This volume is a collection of 11 papers by different scholars. All these are of great use to the students, research scholars and to the students,research scholas and to the public. All the papers in the collection significantly contribute to the advancement of our knowledge about women in the era fo globalisation and economic reforms in Kerala. The editor believes that this book will pave the way for further discussion and exploration about the above.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Meera Bai M.
Dr. Meera Bai M. started her career as Lecturer in the year 1988 at Chhatrapathi Shahu Central Institute for Business Education and Research, Shivaji University, Kolhapr, Maharashtra. Then she joined as Lecturer at the Bharathi Dasan Government College for women, Pondicherry in the year 1991. Later in the same year she was posted as Lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi. In 1993 she was promoted to the post of Senior Lecture and was made Reader in 1998 at the same University, where she has been working now. Meera Bai is a recipient of the prestigious Indo-Greek Fellowship under the Cultural Exchange Programme between the countries of India and Greece and visited Athens, the cradle of world culture, in the year 1996. She was awarded Post Doctoral Fellowship by the NUFFIC (the Higher Education Department of the Government of the Netherlands) for Six times under the SEPTRA (MHO) Programme between the Department of Applied Economics, Cochin University of Science and Technology and the Development Research Institute (IVO), Tilburg University, the Netherlands during 1999-2005. Many are the students doing research under her guidance and more than Seven students of her have been awarded PhD. during 1998-2004. She had undertaken UGC sponsored minor project and Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) world-Bank Forestry Research Education and Extension Major Project in the yeas of 1994 and 1996 respectively. To add to her credit, Meera Bai has presented many papers at national and international seminars and more than 30 articles on timely issues based on Economics and Gender have been published in standard periodicals and magazines. Presently Meera Bai is focusing more on gender issues, convinced of its paramount importance, and this work is a clear evidence there of.
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