Women Development in India

Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Status of Indian women. 3. Women development policies and programmes. 4. Institutional mechanism for women development in India.  5. Organisational structure, functions and programmes of women development organisations. 6. Perceptions on women development organisations. 7. Summary and conclusions. Bibliography. Index.

The constitution of India makes provisions for establishing equality between men and women. The legislations aims at improving the conditions of women have been enacted. All these factors necessitate discussing and understanding different issues related to women and their development. The present volume is modest attempt in that direction. The credit of the book is the comprehensive manner in which it has dealt with many aspects of women development. The presentation of data in the book is simple and lucid. It caters to the needs of the academics, research scholars, women activists, NGOs, administrators and policymakers.