Women in a Changing World

Take any facet of human activity. The world is changing rapidly—be it education, technology, science and society itself. In this change, woman has not lagged behind. She has marched shoulder to shoulder with the male of the species and shared his endeavour in every field of life. She has also reached out into outer space and make a place for herself there too. This advancement of woman and the complete role reversal from ancient days when she was confined to the obscurity and anonymity of the home is studied and explained in detail in this book. Besides placing facts in a logical order, it attempts to analyse the factors that have made the change possible and also the prevailing trends vis-?-vis women and the new approach that society has adopted towards her. The chapters include woman in a changing world, women’s situations in development, women’s empowerment, women in trade and finance, women in industry, women in agriculture, technological change and women, women in services, development policies for women and equal rights and socialist feminism. This book is bound to be of special interest to the general reader, sociologists, planners, administrators and all those interested in learning how the female of the species has kept pace with the march of civilisation.