Flourishing Women in India

Contents: Acknowledgement. 1. Gender Justice and gender equality in Indian society/Indu Sharma. 2. Status of rural women/G.B. Kashyap and Renu Bala. 3. Participation and decision making of Indian women in Panchayati Raj institutions/Nivedita Malik. 4. Women and Victimization/Alka Kulshrestha. 5. Issues and problems of working women/Garima Chaudhary and Prabhat Singh. 6. Status of women in economic activities/Suman Lata and Meenu Aggarwal. 7. Women in Indian History/Anumapa Singh. 8. Self-help groups (SHGs) as an instrument of economic empowerment of women/Mridula Garg. 9. The role of educated women in economic development of India/Sanjeev Kumar and S.K. Pundir. 10. Women at grass root level: An analysis/Anjali Mittal. 11. Women in India scenario/Rachna. 12. Empowerment of women/Gunjan Sachdeva. 13. Global and historical perspective on the legal status of women/Vaibhav Goel, Anuj Garg and Manoj Tripathi. 14. Victimization of women in Indian society and violation of their human rights/Sushila Jain. 15. Mahatma Gandhi and gender justice/Pratima Gangwar. 16. Indian Women in power game/Shivali Agarwal. 17. Re-assessing the feminine sensibility in Anita Desai’s Cry The Peacock/Shashi Sharma. 18. Education and women empowerment in Indian/Varsha Khanwalker. 19. Women’s Status in India: A Vision/Anamikal and Garima. 20. Status of women in art through the ages/Archana Rani. 21. Fabric of entrepreneurship and women/Himanshu Agarwal. 22. Impact of education and employment on status of women and their empowerment/Kamlesh Mahajan.

Women in India are divided in terms of caste, class, rural, urban, educational, occupational and linguistic groups, but marginalization is the common thread of uniformity among them. This book is an attempt to understand the common and silent struggle for getting power and equal status in the society. In this present era, Women Empowerment words not only beautiful words but a real energy which is flowing all over the world. Indian women always symbolized as a depressed and downtrodden class or a deity which is adorable but like a stone feeling less and meaningless, but now her struggle, to prove herself a living human being and equal status to men, achieved so many success in her credit as women reservation bill, increasing no of women at power position, increasing awareness level about their rights. These all things depict the real picture of women empowerment. Indian women are flourishing gradually. This book is a humble attempt to bring forth her achievements in different walk of life, through different articles written by our scholars.