Author: S B Verma
Publisher: Deep & Deep Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 472
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817629568X
Description
There is a great upsurge in awareness about women’s rights among all sections of society. The developmental programmes and policies give emphasis to improving women’s social status. In spite of urbanization and industrialization our culture and economy are predominantly agrarian, rural based. So empowering women, who are the backbone of our agrarian economy, is a sure path to achieve major economic gains. Our development efforts have yielded creditable benefits for women in doubling their life expectancy over the lat fifty years, and considerably reducing female infant mortality and child mortality rates. Women have a crucial role to play in the modern society.
This book has been designed to meet a long-felt need and locate the enormous variety of women images, identify the ideological inspiration as well as under pinnings behind these images and comprehend the manners and processes through which these images affects, shape and even determine the reality of women’s status in society.
The Girl Child and Status of Women
Women in Development and Gender Equality
Women Education and Career Development
Women Empowerment
Women and Rural Development
Women and Social Development
Women, Human Resource Management and Media
Contents
PREFACE
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
PART I
THE GIRL CHILD AND STATUS OF WOMEN
Protecting the Girl Child: Challenges Before Society
Status of Women
Socio-economic Status of Women in India: A Critique
Socio-Economic Status of Tribal Women
PART II
WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT AND GENDER EQUALITY
Role of Women in Population Stabilisation
Women in Development
Gender Issues in Technology Development and Dissemination
Gender Equality
Gender Equality and Development
The Gender Agenda
Careers for Women in Defence Services
PART III
WOMEN EDUCATION AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Mahatma Gandhi and Women’s Education
Women’s Education and National Development
Women’s Education: Harbinger of Rural Prosperity
Women and Corporate Leadership
Women and Entrepreneurship
Rural Women Entrepreneurship
Working Women: Issues and Problems
PART IV
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
Self Help Groups: Empower Rural Women
Empowerment of Women Through Literacy: An Innovative Experiment
Gender Economic Empowerment and Rural Poverty Alleviation
Empowerment of Women and Marginalized Groups in Panchayats
Empowering Women
Empowerment of Women through Rural Industrialization-An Indian Experience
Role of NGO in Empowerment of Tribal Women
Empowering Women at Work
IT for Empowerment of Women
Empowering Women through Self Help Groups Experiences in Experiment
PART V
WOMEN AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Women in Agriculture
Panchayats and Women
Rural Credit and Women Self Help Groups
Women in Panchayats
Women Sarpanches
Women in Commercial Poultry
Women’s Role in Gram Sabha
Role of Women in Agriculture
Rural women and Poverty Alleviation
Tribal Women’s Participation in Farm Forestry
Role of Women in Forestry
Women’s Participation in Farm and Home Activities
A Hand that Cradles Can also Handle the Panchayat
Innovative Initiatives for Development of Rural Women
PART VI
WOMEN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Social Security for the Working Class
Women Self-Help Groups: Kindling Spirit of Entrepreneureship
National Commission for Women-An Appraisal
Women Welfare and Social Development
Female Headed Households: A Study
All About National Commission for Women
Widows: Role Adjustment and Violence
Women in the Freedom Struggle: Invisible Images
PART VII
WOMEN, HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND MEDIA
Media Convergence: Possible social Implications in India
Human Resource Management: Concept and Prospects
Meeting Communication Needs of Rural Women
Women and Media
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX