This article provides information about the report of CSW to explain the status of women in society: In the year 1971, the Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, Government of India appointed a committee called Committee on the Status of Women in India to study the status of women in India. The Ministry was acting on a UN request for [...]
This article provides information about the post-emergency planning of women’s development in India ! The period between 1977 and 1980 witnessed significant policy review exercises by the government. Among them were the Report of the Working Group on Employment of Women, Report of the Working Group on Development of Village Level Organisations of Rural Women, 1977-78, Report of the National [...]
This article provides information about the impact of development on women: It is not possible to be indifferent to social implications of biology and the physical constraints it puts for women. Women and development is a theme that raises issues of equality and justice for women’s experience of development as mediated by both their biology and the social construction of [...]
