Serials Pub, 2007, xliv, 506 p, tables, ISBN : 8183870848, $60.00
Contents: Preface. Keynote address. I. Women's
status: 1. Impact of women in governance in BIMSTEC--changes and
dynamics in the political policy/B. Ratna Kumari and A. Rajani. 2.
Violence against women - a study in Khammam District of A.P.S.
Radhakrishna and K. Madhava Rao. 3. Role of women: a study of rural
women headed households/G. Satyanarayana, M. Reddi Ramu and K. Krishna
Reddy. 4.The status of Dalit women in rural areas in the
post-independent India/M. Erragattu Swamy and M. Ashok Kumar. 5.
Practical utility of gender study/N.M. Das and S. Vidya Sagar. 6. Status
of tribal women: some issues and concerns/P. Sammulal, A Hari Prasad
and P. Ramlal. 7. Muslim women in India-problems and prospects/N.T.K.
Naik, S. Mansoor Rahman and H. Akther Banu. 8. Agrarian distress,
farmers' suicides and gender vulnerability/E. Revathi and Burra Ramulu.
II. Women's education: 9. Women's education as an unfinished
agenda--India's experience/T. Jyothi Rani and K. Katyayani. 10. Women
vis-a-vis higher education: an analytical note/C. Sivaramakrishna Rao,
N. Linga Murthy and K. Mohan Reddy. 11. Education of girls in India/M.
Rukmini, C.V. Naidu and S. Rathna Kumari. 12. Gender disparities in
education and employment/S. Vidya Sagar and K. Manuja Devi. 13. Analysis
of gender inequalities in literacy rate -- a study in A.P./Gulam
Rabbani and Kunati Raji Reddy. 14. Girls' education in India- a
development imperative/P. Vijayalakshmi Pandit. 15. Promoting gender
equality through education in the Indian context/Mohamed Khaiser Ahmed.
16. Adolescents and family life education--a study of college girls/V.
Sreedevi and D. Usha Rani. 17. Gender inequality in literacy rates and
education in India/D. Pulla Rao. III. Women's employments: 18.
Gender-wise labour absorption in agriculture--an empirical analysis/G.
Mallikarjun, Mohd. Iqbal Ali and T. Papi Reddy. 19. Empowerment of women
through employment--a review/K. Padma Latha. 20. Gender disparities in
workforce participation rates--a study in Andhra Pradesh/Gulam Rabbani
and M. Ramesh Reddy. 21. Impact of the SHGs on livelihoods, income and
household assets: a study in Karnataka/G. Sreedhar. 22. Gender equality
through women entrepreneurship-a research perspective/Sita Vanka and N.
Linga Murthy. 23. Gender discrimination in agricultural wages: a case
study in Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh/I. Narendra Kumar, V.K.
Reddy and G. Chandrasekar Rao. 24. Gender inequalities among marginal
farmer and agricultural labourer households--a study of two villages in
Khammam District/A. Venkateswarlu and Y. Venkateswara Rao. 25. Gender
issue in watershed programmes-a study/K. Ramanuja Rao and Manduva
Narasimha Rao. 26. Working women in the organised industrial sector/C.
Swarajyalakshmi. 27. Role of micro finance and changing socio-economic
conditions of women/K. Harathi. IV. Women's health: 28. Prevalence of
chronic energy deficiency and obesity among rural women-an analysis of
nutrient intakes in relation to Plane to nutrition/D.L. Kusuma and B.
Babitha. 29. Menarche and related problems--a comparative study of inter
and degree students/D. Usha Rani and V. Sreedevi. 30. Nutritional
status and dietary profile of married pregnant adolescent girls and
young women/Baby Depur and G. Nagamani. 31. Mainstreaming gender in
health, nutrition and population stabilization/Padma. V. Gender
equality: 32. Empowerment of women and moving towards equality--some
conceptual issues/C. Sivaramakrishna Rao, N. Linga Murthy and K. Mohan
Reddy. 33. Gender equality: new opportunities for moving ahead/B. Ratna
Kumari, Tara Kumari and A. Rajani. 34. Discrimination against girl
child: a study of two villages in Guntur District/D. Srilatha and B.
Sambasiva Rao. 35. Declining child sex ratio in Andhra Pradesh: causes
and consequences/A. Rajani. 36. Gender related development index and
gender empowerment measure in India and ASEAN region--a comparative
study/P. Tara Kumari and P. Vijaya Prakash. 37. Progress of gender
equality--a study of the SAARC Region/P. Leela. 38. Gender
discrimination in domestic sphere and place of work-a study/M. Pushpa
Latha and B. Sudhakar. 39. Gender equality through empowerment of women
in India/S. Vijaya Kumar. 40. Gender discrimination in India/K.
Narasimhulu. 41. Gender inequality: in retrospect and prospect/V.V.
Reddy and G. Bhaskar. 42. Women and law: towards gender justice/Vijaya
Chandra Tenneti and T. Yadagiri Rao. 43. Gender dimensions among
Adivasis of Eastern Ghats (Sharing the experience of Jana Chetana, an
NGO)/M. Sankara Reddi, M. Chandrayya and M. Sundara Rao. 44. Women
empowerment- a socio-legal approach/K. Sudhakar and M. Ravinder.
"Economic
development is expected to show a positive impact on women's control
over resources and their participation in decision-making and this has
initiated great interest in empowerment studies. Researchers, policy
makers, feminist scholars activists, administrators, politicians,
bureaucrats, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, intellectuals,
Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and international institutions,
such as the United Nations, etc., have been examining the impact of
development on the status of women in general and developing countries
in particular. Many of them are inspired by Easter Boserup's path
breaking study on "Women's Role in Economic Development" published in
the year 1970. Most of the studies conducted by them address the
problems of gender discrimination that is beset with the process of
development. In the light of this backdrop, the collection of essays in
this volume made an attempt to examine the national polices and
ideologies which often declared their commitment towards the attainment
of gender equality. Though, this book does not seek to offer a
definition or meaning of empowerment that will be effective and
applicable globally, it speaks about the approach to "Moving towards
Gender Equality" at the national and regional levels and further this
volume tries to highlight the different implications of empowerment of
women in the specific context of development and social change. This
volume is divided into five sections." (jacket)
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