Women and Economic Development

Part Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Women and Economic Theory: 1. Towards an alternative general theory of employment, work and wages/ Yasodha Shanmugasundaram. 2. Gender based labour market segmentation: some theoretical formulations/Seema Singh. 3. Changing role of gender in economic theory/K. Thiruvenkatachari and S. Lakshmi. 4. Patriarchy-- influcence on Adam Smith's writings/T. Jyothi Rani and H. Girija Rani. 5. A comparative analysis of the contribution of genders to economic theory: a case study of India/R.K. Rana. 6. Household labour: concepts and quantification/Saswati Ghosh. II. Women and Economic Development: 7. Women and their interaction in sustainable development/Dhulasi Birundha Varadarajan. 8. Role of women in economic development of India/Deepa Shrivastava. 9. Optimising the role of human beings in economic development/Raj Kumar Sen. 10. The role of women in economic development/ Sukumar Basu. 11. Education and political status of Indian women--key of economic development/Ram Naresh Thakur. 12. Women's movements in India during 20th century/T. Jyothi Rani, K. Katyayani and H. Girija Rani. 13. Women as agents of economic development: their economic activities and reproductive behaviour/Bharati Chowdhury (nee Roy). 14. Growth of population and the role of women in India/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 15. An econometric analysis of determinants of fertility/Yamini Utreja and A.S. Guleria. III. Women and Rural Development: 16. Economics of gender discrimination: a case study of rural India/S.G. Gambhir. 17. Self-.…