Gender Justice and Women Empowerment : Development, Domestic Violence and Human Right
Contents: Preface. I. Women and development: 1. Discriminations against women and cedaw: an appraisal/Shiv Sahai Singh. 2. Education as a tool for women empowerment in the era of globalization: a critique/Sanjay Kumar Singh. 3. Role of gender in education: a legal probe/Sangeeta Mandal. 4. Microfinance and women empowerment/Arvind Chakraborty. 5. Women empowerment and Hindu code bill: Role of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar/Sushma Pradhan. 6. Conceptualizing feminism from sameness to Universal sisterhood/Subhamoy Basu. II. Women and domestic violence: 7. What is new in protection of women from domestic violence act, 2005/P.B. Pankaja. 8. Domestic violence law: March towards gender equality?/Kohinoor Roy. III. Women and human rights: 9. Women\'s human rights: Indian scenario/Khusboo e Jahan. 10. Gender inequality and law: an analysis in Indian perspective/Arun Kumar Singh. 11. Women and human rights/Gulnaz Nazam. 12. Women rights and violation of human rights: and overview/Bhupendra Kumar Verma. IV. Women and property: 13. Property rights of Hindu females after Hindu succession amendment act, 2005/Rakesh Kumar Singh. 14. Violence against women: a critical analysis as a global problem/Dipak Das. 15. Protection of refugee women under present international regime: a study/Yogesh Pratap Singh. 16. Justice to victims of rape/Pandit Kamalakar. 17. Female genital mutilation: an analysis/Pradeep Kumar Pandey. 18. Protection of women in India through legislations: an appraisal/Arvind Agarwal. 19. Mental cruelty to women under Indian law/Ruchita Chakraborty. 20. Custodial violence: a grave violation of women rights in India/Sanjib Chakraborty. 21. Women as domestic workers and recognizing their right to work/Ranjit Sil.
The Constitution of India guarantees equality of status and opportunity as well as justice to all the citizens of India. If is provided in Article 15 of the Indian Constitution that the state shall not discriminate against any citizen on the grounds of sex and at the same time states are vested with powers to make any special provision for the protection of women and children. Despite all the constitutional provisions women are still being harassed, exploited and discriminated in one way or the other in almost all walks of life. Though legislative measures have been made with a view to provide equal adequate legal protection to them, but even then all these efforts have not produced the desired results either due to some lacunae in the legislative provisions or due to some deficiency in the enforcement machinery.
In the ever changing horizon the status of women remains a fluctuating one. The word women which stood for the decorative piece, in the household of man in the male dominated society is now a relic of the past today, women are standing shoulder to shoulder with men in supplementary the economy of the family by accepting even odd jobs.
The message of the book is that in order to strive for gender justice and women empowerment, women must fight back for their status and opportunity in the society. They will have to come forward to armed themselves inter varies socio-economic legislations which affect their lives. Women with proper legal economic and education may play a significant role to assert their rights in a dynamic society for peace, prosperity, social, economic and political progress and to achieve the desired objectives of social economic and political justice made for their over all socio economic development. (jacket)
