Status of Women in Modern India

Contents: Preface. I. The girl child and status of women: 1. Protecting the girl child: challenges before society/Vir Bala Aggarwal. 2. Status of women/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 3. Socio-economic status of women in India: a critique/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 4. Socio-economic status of tribal women/V.M. Rao. II. Women in Development and gender equality: 5. Role of women in population stabilisation/Najma Heptulla. 6. Women in development/J. Bhagyalakshmi. 7. Gender issues in technology development and dissemination/S.S. Deshpande and N. Ali. 8. Gender equality/S.B. Verma. 9. Gender equality and development/Usha K. 10. The gender agenda/Seema Singh. 11. Careers for women in defence services/Jayanti Ghose. III. Women education and career development: 12. Mahatma Gandhi and women's education/John Vergis Vilanilam. 13. Women's education and national development/K.K. Tiwari. 14. Women's education: Harbinger of rural prosperity/B.L. Uniyal. 15. Women and corporate leadership/L.P. Singh. 16. Women and entrepreneurship/Biplab Moitra. 17. Rural women entrepreneurship/Swalia Bihari Verma. 18. Working women: issues and problems/Neeta Anand. IV. Women empowerment: 19. Self Help Groups: empower rural women/T.R. Gurumoorthy. 20. Empowerment of women through literacy: an innovative experiment/C. Krishna Mohan Rao and B.V.V. Bala Krishna. 21. Gender economic empowerment and rural poverty alleviation/B.K. Pattanaik. 22. Empowerment of women and marginalized groups in Panchayats/K. Siva Subrahmanyam. 23. Empowering women/Sakuntala Narasimhan. 24. Empowerment of women through rural industrialisation -- an Indian experience/G.K. Agrawal. 25. Role of NGO in empowerment of tribal women/M. Gurulingaiah. 26. Empowering women at work/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 27. IT for empowerment of women/Shaik, N. Meer and D.U.M. Rao. 28. Empowering women through Self Help Groups experiences in experiment/T. Chiranjeevulu. V. Women and rural development: 29. Women in agriculture/Souvik Ghosh. 30. Panchayats and women/Nirmala Buch. 31. Rural credit and women Self Help Groups/H.D. Dwarakanath. 32. Women in Panchayats/Prabhat Datta. 33. Women Sarpanches/Manju Panwar. 34. Women in commercial poultry/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 35. Women's role in Gram Sabha/Sakuntala Narasimhan. 36. Role of women in agriculture/Bhagirathi Dash. 37. Rural women and poverty alleviation/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 38. Tribal women's participation in farm forestry/Prakash Kashwan. 39. Role of women in forestry/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 40. Women's participation in farm and home activities/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 41. A hand that cradles can also handle the Panchayat/Hemalatha H.M. 42. Innovative initiatives for development of rural women/A.K. Jain. VI. Women and social development: 43. Social security for the working class/Sharad Yadav. 44. Women self-help groups: kindling spirit of entrepreneurship/Bharat Dogra. 45. National Commission for women--an appraisal/Leena Mehendale. 46. Women welfare and social development/B.K. Pattanaik. 47. Female headed households: a study/Ranjay Vardhan. 48. All about National Commission for Women/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 49. Widows: role adjustment and violence/Ram Ahuja. 50. Women in the freedom struggle: invisible images/Pratibha Jain and Sangeeta Sharma. VII. Women, human resource management and media: 51. Media convergence: possible social implications in India/Bela Trivedi and Kisha Thaker. 52. Human resource management: concept and prospects/Amrita Guha. 53. Meeting communication needs of rural women/J. Bhagyalakshmi. 54. Women and media/Sujata Madhok. Bibliography. Index.

"There is a great upsurge in awareness about women's rights among all sections of society. The developmental programmes and policies give emphasis to improving women's social status. In spite of urbanisation and industrialisation our culture and economy are predominantly agrarian, rural based. So empowering women, who are the backbone of our agrarian economy, is a sure path to achieve major economic gains. Our development efforts have yielded creditable benefits for women in doubling their life expectancy over the last fifty years, and considerably reducing female infant mortality and child mortality rates. Women have a crucial role to play in the modern society.

This book has been designed to meet a long-felt need and locate the enormous variety of women images, identify the ideological inspiration as well as under pinnings behind these images and comprehend the manner and processes through which these images affects, shape and even determine the reality of women's status in society." (jacket)