Women\'s Work, Health and Empowerment

Contents: Introduction. 1. Women empowerment in relation to the national policy for the empowerment of women/K.K. Singh. 2. Women, work and empowerment/Kamla Sankaran. 3. Women\'s empowerment through micro-credit/Zubair Meenai. 4. Gender budgeting and auditing: insights from the Indian experience/Adarsh Sharma. 5. Women in governance in India/Susheela Kaushik. 6. Education among Muslim women: a situational analysis/Hajira Kumar. 7. The status of Jain women: stated ideal, lived realities/Manisha Sethi. 8. Retired women: role transition/Sushma Batra. 9. Gender issues in HIV/AIDS/Neeti Malhotra. 10. HIV/AIDS: a study of knowledge, attitudes, gender equality and professional preparation among social work students in India/Paul Sachdev. 11. Women and mental health/Ashwani Kumar. 12. Women and leprosy/Harvinder Kaur. Seminar Report. Index.

"In the contemporary time gender equality and women empowerment are no longer considered supplementary but central to the practice of development. With increasing awareness of the subordinate status of women, the concept of gender has emerged as an overreaching political, economic, social variable seen in relation to other factors such as race, religion, class, age and ethnicity.

Professor Anjali Gandhi and other eminent contributors, all with a wide range of academic and practical experience in their articles have critically analyzed the existing dilemmas and complexities and expressed their viewpoints on varied issues concerning women in the context of our society. This book is a step towards creating resource material on various topics related to women." (jacket)