Women\'s Health and Social Issues

Contents: Preface. 1. The status of women in India. 2. National policy for the empowerment of women (2001). 3. The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. 4. Empowerment of women for the XI Plan. 5. Women and the economy. 6. Women and the law. 7. Socioeconomic and cultural interventions for vulnerable groups. 8. Social empowerment. 9. Political empowerment gender budgeting and women component plan. 10. Institutional mechanisms for advancement of women. 11. Schemes of the ministry of women and child development. 12. Chronic hungers and the status of women in India. 13. The New women’s movement and social change in India. Bibliography. Index.

In this book, we lead the campaign to address long overlooked women’s issues in health care. The urgency mounts as the national debate on health care reform takes place. Social workers have a vital role to play in the effort to achieve adequacy and equity in women’s health care, and this book will assist them in accomplishing that goal. Women’s Health and social issues provides insights into a rage of women’s health needs and feminist perspectives for understanding and dealing with them. The author illuminates issues that affect women at different stages in the life span and from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. The book is not organized around types of medical interventions; instead, its thrust is to ask what feminist health care ethics looks like if we start with women’s experiences and concerns. The author unravels two key concepts of women’s empowerment agency and autonomy that apply to all areas of concern to women. All Indian Government schemes and programmes are included to bring out awareness.