Women’s Rights & Empowerment

The present publication profiles in carefully selected papers, articles, excerpts and notes the emergent dimensions of women’s rights and empowerment. Included in this select list of readings are: an overview of the increased participation of women in the labour force in India, form and content of participation in women’s development programmes, enabling legislation for the achievement of the objective of equal opportunity work environment, the search for identity in terms of self-awareness and roles demanded of the modern woman, and the political consciousness that has been acquired in the course of women’s development. The volume will be of much use to all students and teachers in the area of women’s empowerment and also to sociologists as contemporary document.