Exploitation of Women and Child Labour : A Criminal Abuse

Contents: Preface. 1. Abolition of child labour in India: strategies for the Eleventh Five Year Plan. 2. Globalisation and child labour: possible consequences. 3. Contract farming in India: impacts on women and child workers. 4. Female labour force participation. 5. Child sexual exploitation and the law. 6. Commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth. 7. Child labour: stop exploitation - empower children. 8. Institutionalized exploitation of women as negative impact of globalization. 9. Perception of women empowerment in India. 10. Slaughtering eve: the hidden gendercide. 11. A Pluralist account of labour participation in India. 12. Sexual violence against women and girls in war and its aftermath: realities, responses, and required resources. 13. Women and transnational organized crime elements on women in the criminal justice system. Bibliography. Index.

The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. From equal status with men in ancient times through the low points of the medieval period, to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers, the history of women in India has been eventful. In modern India, women have adorned high offices in India including that of the President Prime Minister, Speaker of the Lok Sabha etc. The incumbent President of India is a woman.