Tamil Nadu's noon-cum-nutritious meal scheme is the country's largest in terms of the number of beneficiaries covered. There is little doubt that enrolment and retention of children, including girl...
Review of Women's Studies
This paper examines the budgets of the West Bengal government to study the share of the state's budgetary resources that accrued to women in its various schemes. It is obvious from the study that...
Gender budgeting exercises attempt to assess how far prevailing gender-based biases are incorporated into budgetary exercises. Such analyses also provide women with vital information regarding the...
Based on a study of female domestic workers in Delhi, this paper highlights the primary role of women in migration and the survival of family. Women domestics are found assuming vital functions and...
This paper attempts to understand household work, workforce participation, division of labour and women's position in Naga society with special reference to the Tangkhul Nagas of Manipur state. Using...
This paper examines four time phases beginning with the period after independence up to mid-2000 in order to trace a timeline for work and family research in the Indian context. As compared to work-...
This article charts the growth of Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad, from its inception to the present, when its role as a vital avenue for promoting women's empowerment has been recognised...
This article looks at policy initiatives needed for creating a conducive environment for the professional growth and satisfaction of women professionals in agriculture in India. The findings are the...
This paper maps three discrete and overlapping feminist perspectives on globalisation, locating their theoretical genealogies and legacies in development studies, third world/transnational studies...
The womenâ??s movement has with varying degrees of success negotiated with the changing socio-political contexts in India. However, change is slow and painful and the lives of a large section of...
During the past decade, evaporation of ideological content has happened at the national, regional and local levels, and concerns not only the economic field, but also other areas of social...
The practices of women's movement are continually being transformed to meet new challenges. Yet feminist politics is constantly confronted with a scepticism against institutionalised politics; it...
Why has education been peripheral to the concerns of the contemporary women's movement in India, especially given the legacy of struggle by women to establish their right to education? How can the...
Communalism, the actual and possible effects of economic reforms on women's position, and the rising violence in our society have become problematic issues for the womenâ??s movement. Many of these...
This paper is based on a participatory research study that sought to explore the dynamics of community-based responses to domestic violence across five sites in India. The study was intended to...
