Gender Empowerment and Development (Reprint)

Contents Preface. Abbreviations. List of contributors. Introduction. I. Gender current status 1. Gender and economics in India/Ratna M. Sudarshan. 2. Status of women in selected countries/Harvinder Kaur. 3. Status of women in SAARC countries a comparative analysis/Md. Tarique and Zafar Ahmad Sultan. 4. Economic and gender development in India differentials and determinants/S.K. Mishra and P.K. Pandey. 5. Gender disparities in India some evidences/D. Krishnamoorthy. 6. Theory of gendered approach to development in the third world perspective/Shamim Akhtar and Moh. Azher Khan. 7. Gender related development and disparity an empirical study/Biswajit Guha. II. Gender Some Issues 8. Conceptual and critical issues relating to gender and development an analysis/Kalpana Singh. 9. Gender and economic inequality in Botswana/M.K. Sukumaran Nair. 10. Women entrepreneurial development in India problems and prospects/M. Mohsin Khan and Sathish Kumar. 11. Gender equality an analysis of status of women in India/Manish Dev. 12. Gender equity and rights of women/K.B. Padamdeo and Umesh Prasad. 13. Health policies and gender issues in Punjab/Kuldip Kaur and Paramjit Kaur Dhindsa. 14. Is investment in women's education profitable/Sailabala Debi. 15. Fertility and female literacy in Madhya Pradesh threshold effect/Mona Khare. 16. Women literacy and empowerment in India/R.S. Solunke and G.B. Gawande. 17. Gender disparity in literacy rate of India a review/Md. Abdus Salam and Navendu Shekher. 18. Education and gender justice in Bihar/R.N. Thakur and Shree Niwas Pandey. III. Policies towards gender empowerment 19. Women empowerment policies in India an overview/Kiran Mor and Rajendra Kumar. 20. Gender inequality some issues/Mithilesh Kumar Sinha Niraj Kumar and Chandra P. Singh. 21. Need of women empowerment in India/Anil Kumar Thakur Kamini Jha and Vipin Prasad Singh. 22. Issues in gender discrimination and empowerment in India/Syed Noman Ahmad and Mohd. Izhar Ahmad. 23. The role of personal capital and traits in measurement of gender discrimination/Debendra Narayan Bhattacharyya. 24. Policy for empowerment of women/Kapil Deo Prasad Singh and Jayant K. Sinha. 25. Gender empowerment policies in India/M.P. Goswami and Suneeta Chopra. 26. Gender empowerment poverty and environment in India/S.S.P. Sharma Shiv Shankar and Yoginder P. Singh. 27. Political empowerment of women/Dilip Kumar Ghosh and Bhawana Jha. 28. Empowerment of women and property rights/Bikrama Singh and Nripender Kumar. 29. Gender empowerment in India/Niraj Kumar. 30. Empowering women in India/Shambhu Deo Mishra and Masood Alam. 31. Gender equality and empowerment of women promise and performance/Tapan Kumar Shandilya and Bipin Kumar. 32. Empowerment of women in India challenges and perspectives/Krishnanand Yadav Satyendra Narayan Singh and Shambhu Shah. IV. Gender and rural development 33. Female labour force participation and structure of wages in Thanjavur agriculture a historical perspective/S. Ramachandran. 34. Gender poverty and depletion of common property resources a study of selected villages in Dharwad District/A.R. Kulkarni. 35. Gender disparities in rural workforce participation rate state level analysis/Arvind Awasthi and Divya and Agarwal. V. Gender select interventions for gender development 36. Gender composition and development an interstate analysis/Anju Kohli. 37. Gender budgeting in Madhya Pradesh a case study of public expenditure on women and child development/Shakun Palharya. 38. Quality of life in Orissa a critical gender analysis/Sandhyarani Das and R.P. Sarma. 39. Role of SHGs in gender development of Tamil Nadu/R. Kumar. 40. Livelihood diversification and women empowerment through self help micro credit programme evidence from Jammu and Kashmir/Falendra K. Sudan. 41. Bihar PRI model for women empowerment/Subodh Kumar Sinha and Shivperson Sharma. Index. This book examines gender from a purely developmental perspective. It looks at the processes involved in the d.…