Gender Development Indicators: Issues, Debates and Ranking of Districts
Published By: CWDS on eSS | Published Date: June, 03 , 2000The present study emphasizes on independent variable analysis in assessing gender development at the disaggregated district level to
account for problems such as the major contradiction facing this century which relates to development sans equality, growth without
equitable distribution, prosperity alongside rising gender inequalities, none of which are natural but
are rather influenced by social and cultural factors.This paper is divided into seven sections. After the introduction, the second section deals with some
of the debates and measures of development indicators. Section three presents the methodology,
objectives and scope of the study. The fourth section discusses the selected indicators along with a
state level analysis of each of them. A detailed presentation of district-wise data analysis is
undertaken in the fifth section under specific sub-heads of demographic, educational, health, sociocultural
and economic indicators. The main findings are presented in the sixth section. Some
concluding remarks, including directions for further explorations and limitations of the present study
are provided in the last section. [CWDS]
Author(s): Preet Rustagi | Posted on: Jun 03, 2010 | Views(1478) | Download (901)