Gender Issues in Development : Concerns for the Twenty-First Century

Contents: Acknowledgements. 1. Gender issues in development: concerns for the twenty-first century/Bhaswati Das and Vimal Khawas. 2. Agency, structure and women as situated subjects: changing the terms of gendered discourse and exploring ways to crack the gendered codes/Saraswati Raju. 3. Bridging the gender gaps: an analysis of the educational situation with special emphasis on higher, technical and professional education/Anita Nuna. 4. Feminization or segregation: insights from a disaggregate analysis of NSSO data/Neetha N. 5. Determinants of sexual violence within marriage in Kerala/Pradeep Panda. 6. Implications of ageing with special reference to women/Anupama Datta. 7. Gender equality in education: assessing gains and reviewing challenges in Rajasthan/Shobhita Rajagopal. 8. Women’s work and Indian labour markets/Preet Rustagi. 9. Rural poverty alleviation and conservation: some recent evidence from Himachal Pradesh on the implications of interventions for rural women/Purnamita Dasgupta. 10. An encounter between university teachers and the rural women of Jhargram: the narrative of a workshop and the lessons learnt/Abhijit Guha. 11. Gender differences among older persons: A study based on the 2001 population census of India/Dipendra Nath Das and Murali Dhar Vemuri. 12. Sensitizing financial allocations through gender budgeting/Lekha S. Chakraborty. 13. Crafting democratic citizenship: towards a continuum approach to political participation/Anupama Roy. Contributors. Index.

“Gender issues are wide and spread over the entire gamut of development. Over the decades it appeared to be the most intriguing for development plans. The present book, which is an outcome of a national seminar, held under the auspices of council for social development, New Delhi, is an attempt to look into the gender issues involved in different development activities. The contributors are drawn from different social science backgrounds such as economics, sociology, demography, geography and anthropology. This is done purposely to have perspectives of all these disciplines in one single book.” (jacket)