Empowerment and Status of Women in Tripura

Contents: Foreword. Preface. List of contributors. 1. Empowerment of women: a note on concept, measurement and issues involved/Debajit Chakraborty. 2. Feminism today/Amitabha Sinha. 3. Women in political arena of Tripura/Panchali Bhattacharya. 4. Women empowerment and Panchayati Raj Institutions in Tripura/Manoshi Das and Jayantha Choudhury. 5. Women participation in Tripura Legislative Assembly/Tapas Dasgupta. 6. Demographic and socio-economic status of women--a profile of Tripura/Anup Kumar Datta. 7. Status of women in North Eastern States of India--an analysis with special reference to Tripura/Dipannita Chakraborty. 8. An insight into girls education in Tripura/Amiya Kumar Pan. 9. Performance of girl students in public examinations conducted in Tripura/Chhanda Debnath. 10. Maternal mortality in Tripura--a case study of South Tripura District Hospital/Salibindu Chakraborti. 11. Health and nutritional status of female daily wage labour engaged in construction work/Supriya Sengupta. 12. Health and beauty consciousness of urban women in Tripura/Biplab De, Manabendra Debnath, Prasun De, Ratna Choudhury and Mithu Dey. 13. Status of \'Wife\' in family--a study on perception of spouse/Malina Saha (Datta). 14. Empowering the powerless--a study on economic empowerment of women through SHG/Vandana Sinha. 15. Women Self Help Groups in Tripura--status and significance/Sanjoy Roy. 16. Self Help Group--a new mantra for Tripura tribal women\'s vision and hope/Jahar Deb Barma and Moutoshi Deb. 17. Status of women workers in unorganized sector of Tripura/Asish Bhowmik and Manab Karmakar. 18. Female workers engaged in the brick-fields of Tripura a socio economic profile/Sanjoy Das. 19. Plight of the part-time domestic workers in Agartala/Diganta Basu, Bharati Maitra Sima Bhattacharya. 20. Empowerment of woman though entrepreneurship development in Tripura/Bimal Kishore Acharya. 21. Status of women employees in the banking industry of Tripura/Abhijit Sarkar. 22. Women in changing society of Tripura/Krishna Nath (Bhowmik). 23. Divorce and desertion in a changing society/B.K. Mandal. 24. Violence against women and redress through counselling/Mukti Bhattacharya. 25. A glimpse of women inmates in Agartala Central Jail/Tusharbindu Chakraborti. Index.

"Women\'s issues, of late, is receiving immense attention across the globe. Seminars, conferences, workshops etc, are being organised at various international, national or regional platforms. The focal point of such discussion often revolve around the subject of women\'s empowerment which has become a matter of serious concern for the policy makers. In this situation issues pertaining to empowerment of women in Tripura cannot simply be ignored but requires special attention of all concern.

This book is a collection of articles and research papers contributed by academicians, scholars, administrators and social activists. There are 25 articles and research papers in the book focusing upon issues concerning women\'s empowerment and status with reference to Tripura. Status of women may, in one sense, serve as one of many yard sticks of empowerment of women. Again the status of empowerment along with the issues and level associated with it may be reflected in the dynamic component of the status. In this context contributors of this volume have come up with their respective outcomes by analyzing different aspects for empowerment and status." (jacket)