In the past, development efforts for poor third world women have often failed to bring about relevant changes in the women's lives. This can be attributed, in significant part, to the lack of...
Review of Women's Studies
The organisation of domestic work articulates not only gender differences and inequalities within and between households but also those of class and caste. This study examines the ways in which...
This paper reports and discusses evidence from a field survey on the existence of the practice of female infanticide in Tamil Nadu. Primary health centre records analysed provide strong...
Devaki Jain There are many inadequacies in the composition of indices especially the gender development index and the gender empowerment measure presented in the Human Development Report, 1995. This...
Using Anthropometry Anuradha Khati Rajivan The issue of gender differences is no longer marginal in development debates. UNDP's Human Development Reports for 1995 and 1996 contribute significantly...
Towards an Alternative Indira Hirway Darshini Mahadevia Holding the Gender Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) devised by the UNDP to be unsatisfactory, the authors...
This paper explores the problems and prospects inherent in developing a data base that can effectively address emerging issues including a more sensitive approach to gender-related development...
This paper draws attention to the problems associated with the construction of a GDI at the sub-national level in developing countries using data for 15 Indian states. The analysis shows that a...
A Gender Empowerment Measure Aasha Kapur Mehta This paper tries to construct three measures of gender empowerment based on the following indicators: representation in Lok Sabha, state legislatures,...
Meera Nanda Arguing against the tendency of some post-colonial feminists to decry Descartes and through him, the entire legacy of the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution as western and '...
Learning and Unlearning Together Swatija Manorama Chayanika Shah Documented here is a collective reflective process which began by critiquing existing knowlege systems about women's bodies and their...
Feminist Reflections on Speech and Censorship Ratna Kapur This paper draws a distinction between the legal regulation of sexual speech and of hate Speechtwo very different kinds of speech, with two...
Problem of Technological Unemployment or Deskilling Jan Sinclair-Jones Technological change and advancement are popularly regarded as progressive, positive and inevitable. The significant threat of...
Kamalini H Bhansali Prompted with the objectives of influencing policy so that the quality of women's life is improved and documenting the effects of developments in science and technology on women'...
Identity Question Shefali Moitra An androcentric world-view sees science as a means to 'dominate' nature. A feminist perspective would see science as conversing' with nature. The probative force...
