Gender and development in India :

Kalpagam, U.

Gender and development in India : current issues / U. Kalpagam. - Jaipur : Rawat Publications, 2011. - vii, 248 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes statistical tables.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-242) and index.

This Book interrogates current issue on gender and development in India. A number of issues relating to livelihood and social security that impinge on women?s lives that have come to fore in context of globalization and liberalization of the Indian economy are discussed. At the same time, the discourse on women's empowerment has proliferated both in the state and in the civil society, albeit with multiple meanings and approaches to its.


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Women in development--India.
Informal sector (Economics)--India.
Women--Employment--India.

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