Changing Status and Emerging Problems of Indian Women/edited by Dharam Vir and Kamlesh Mahajan. New Delhi, New Academic Pub., 2006, viii, 304 p., tables, $43. ISBN 81-86772-23-5.

    Contents: Preface. 1. India women : the new configurations/Indu Prakash Singh. 2. Changing status of Indian women : a myth or reality/Anupama Shandilya. 3. Changing status of women in India/G. Narayana and A. Lakshmi. 4. Status and role of contemporary women in rural India/Poonam Gupta. 5. Decision roles of women in rural and semi-urban activities/S. Giriappa. 6. The changing status of tribal women in India/Manju Manral. 7. Social adjustment of women in urban India/Sarojini Wasson. 8. Feminist perspectives : some thoughts/Anuradha Bhoite. 9. Women's issues: need and modes of awareness raising/Chhaya Datar. 10. Gender and work/Amarnath R. Das and Ch. Umamohan. 11. Divorces in Indian society/Rekha Pandey. Index.

    "This book deals with the most important issues of changing status and emerging problems of women in Indian society. The status of Indian women has undergone change with more and more women, particularly in urban India, becoming economically independent. This has made them more mobile in various occupations. But the question of gender equality is still the main concern in India as majority of the rural Indian women remain uneducated or less educated and also economically dependent on their male family members. The change in the status of women has led to many problems like singlehood, unemployment, poor health and mal-nutrition, sex exploitation and sexual harassment, social adjustment, dowry, divorce, widowhood, femicide, etc."

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