Gender Empowerment and Development

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 development of gender, addressing sensitive issues and complex questions. Gender has an important role to play in the development of the society. Thus far, the demographic research on gender issues has been relatively less data intensive compound to other disciplines of economic analysis. Available data suggest that traditional woman's status indicators, such as education, exploitation, employment, etc. are not enough to capture the nuances of gender power relations and the way in which they govern gender behaviors and empowerment. This book highlights these critical issues measuring and analysing the gender empowerment." (jacket)