Contents: The Contributors. Introduction. Preface. I. Women and their socio-economic Problems: 1. Socio-cultural and economic problems of women in the North-East: A review on different studies/Rosemary B. Choudhury. 2. Ecology, Economy and Tribal women/Kalpana Choudhury. 3. Hill-Tribal Economy and women Development of North-East India/C.K. Biswas. 4. Women Emancipation and Development: North-East Perspecstive/Amalesh Banerjee. 5. Age at Menarce and Nutritional status among the Tai Khamtis Girls of Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh/Munmi Gogoi. 6. Traditional Skill and knowledge of Mongoloid women in North-East India as a source of their Socio- Economic Development/Girin Phukon. 7. Non-Timber Forest Produce: Rural economy and role of women/Khukumoni mudoi. II. Women Trafficking and Problems Involved therein: 8. Trafficking of women and children in North-East India/Biloris Lyndem. 9. Crime Against Women: A problem of women emancipation-some observations in North East India/Umesh Ch. Saharia. 10. Issue of Social, Domestic violence and women trafficking in Meghalaya/Gita Pyal & Donna R. Diengdoh. III. Education and Women Empowerment: 11. Education and women’s empowerment/A. Henia. 12. Female Literacy, Education and development in North-East India/Lakshyahira Datta. 13. School-Dropout Female students in Garo Hills of Meghalaya: A study of Resubelpara Block/Govinda Pd. Bhandari and Samar Saha. 14. Literacy! Education and political participation of women in Meghalaya: With special reference to Garo Hills: a study/Anjan Jyoti Borah. 15. Human Rights Education – A step towards women’s emancipation/Suprita Choudhury. 16. Female literacy and Education/Phunu Das & Paramita Dey. 17. Academic Qualification of Mothers and its influence on empowering their girl child/Rantu Gohain. 18. Women’s Education: A tool for economic change (with special reference to Nagaland)/Mithilesh Kr. Sinha. IV. Gender Sensitization: 19. Gender sensitization: A critical analysis of the role of media/Dolly Phukon. 20. Issues of Social Awareness and Women Emancipation: Libraries as Agents of Change/Pallavi Gogoi. 21. Man versus Woman: A critique of emancipated ideology/Xavier P. Mao. 22. Women in decision-making: experiences from two States in North-East India/Manoranjan Pal, Bholanath Ghosh and Premananda Bharati. 23. Awareness of joint Forest Management among women in Tripura/Phalguni Kayenpaibam and B.K. Tiwari. 24. Moral development of female students of North-Eastern region of India/Rita Karmakar & Anjali Ghosh. 25. Role of Self-Help Groups in empowering rural women of Asom/Babli Choudhury.
“In this Book, there are research articles contributed by different authors. To make it more topical and convenient for the readers, articles are divided under four parts women and their Socio-Economic Problems; Women Trafficking and Problems involved therein; Education and Women Empowerment, and Gender Sensitization. To understand the Problem of women empowerment more women academicians had contributed their knowledge, understanding and research findings on problems, issues and such other activities affecting women today.
These problems and issues started right from the family level and also involved as well as affected the entire civil society in which women are not excluded. On the basis of these issues and other facts of life, women of today no longer remain within the confines of traditions, customs and cultures. They moved out or are forced to do so to find ways and means to improve their status by deciding for themselves and do not wait any longer for others to decide their future. Women’s education is surely an in portent instrument to bring about change both in attitude and perception towards women. Thus, the movements have been organized to mobilize public opinions in favour of such positive approach to help women of the different societies.
This book is brought out in order to fill up some of the gaps to the already existing literature on women in general and their specific problems in particular from the North-Eastern perspectives."
