There are many theories and approaches to study the home
asked is whether these approaches actually reflect the experiences of the majority
of homebased workers in India or was the field of theorisa... Section: Occasional Papers
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 01 May 2018 This paper, however, demonstrates
that the effective history of thinking about political representation in the
form of reservations for women is as old as the women’s movement itself.
Feminist enga... Section: Occasional Papers
by Mary E. John | On 01 Aug 2017 The situation today is that domestic violence is treated as a `social crime’ when compared with violence by strangers, even though it is much more severe in nature. Why is wife beating considered as a... Section: Occasional Papers
by Shalu Nigam | On 01 Jan 2017 The present study on evaluation of the NREGA Scheme is intended to assess the impact of this scheme on the status of child care services at worksites of the NREGA, status of facilities available to wo... Section: Research Papers
by Madhuri Karak | On 01 Jan 2015 Tribal community practices and cultures, particularly the lack of traditional restrictions on women’s work and labour, have indeed been a significant factor in
bringing larger proportions of tribal w... Section: Occasional Papers
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 01 Apr 2014 On a hot summer’s day in 1982, while walking through a jungle path in
Bankura, West Bengal, anthropologist Narayan Banerjee asked an old
Santhal woman who was accompanying him to narrate her experie... Section: Occasional Papers
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 01 Apr 2014 Based on the last four rounds of NSS data the study explores some dimensions of women’s labour market participation across social groups. [CWDS Occasional Paper No.59]. URL:[http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPa... Section: Occasional Papers
by Neetha N | On 01 Jan 2013 Are there substantial changes in the relationship between women and engineering in recent times? This is a fascinating question to explore especially since it has been so little studies especially in... Section: Occasional Papers
by Sreelekha Nair | On 03 Mar 2012 This research responds to the growing demand by mass organizations, for better documentation of women’s migration in India amid reports from activists of great increases in and new and more vulnerable... Section: Research Papers
by Indu Agnihotri | On 01 Mar 2012 This paper examines
some of the explicit as well as not so explicit trends in relation to women’s
employment in India from 1993-94 till 2009-10 and argues that they indicate a
grave and continuing... Section: Occasional Papers
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 10 Aug 2011 This study focuses on gender equality and democratic governance in the five largest states of the South Asian region, namely, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Beginning with a general... Section: Occasional Papers
by Seema Kazi | On 01 Jun 2011 From the early 1990s, the principal economic, social and political problems experienced by
the mass of Indian women have, in one way or another, become inextricably linked with the
processes and pol... Section: Seminar reports
by Centre for Women's Development Studies | On 28 Mar 2011 This paper traces the engagement of the Indian state with the issue of disability over the past three decades as a discourse of charity and welfare gives way to one of equality and human rights. Using... Section: Occasional Papers
by Renu Addlakha | On 22 Sep 2010 This paper contains essays on New Reproductive Technologies and Health Care in Neo-Liberal India. URL: [http://www.cwds.ac.in/OCPaper/Monograph-Imrana.pdf] Section: Occasional Monograph Series
by Imrana Qadeer | On 02 May 2010 Study on the needs and conditions of women workers in Delhi
must begin its enquiry with the initial problem of poor availability of employment or access to economic activity/work for women in the cap... Section: Research Papers
by Neetha N | On 01 Feb 2010 The paper analyzes the past and present condition of women in India. Section: Occasional Papers
by Uma Chakravarti | On 22 Dec 2009 The date of the enforcement of the Constitution, 26th January 1950, marked a
crucial change in the legal status of the people of India. They were no longer
British subjects, but citizens of the Repu... Section: Occasional Papers
by Anupama Roy | On 22 Dec 2009 Development within the framework of economic reforms is often equated to growth
rates which are highlighted as the only solution to all problems – be it poverty,
unemployment or inequalities based... Section: Occasional Papers
by Neetha N | On 21 Sep 2009 Although a lot of scholarly attention has gone into issues concerning women
for more than three decades, little work has been done on the evolution and
functioning of institutions1 that have been cr... Section: Occasional Papers
by Sadhna Arya | On 16 Jul 2009 Using qualitative data, this paper discusses notions of sexual identity among urban Indian youth through case studies of college students in Delhi. Gender emerges as a key analytical category in perce... Section: Occasional Papers
by Renu Addlakha | On 18 Jun 2009 The paper is an attempt to review critically the association between women’s paid work and empowerment in India. As a prelude, the author seek to assess the extent of women’s participation in paid wor... Section: Occasional Papers
by Sunny Jose | On 15 Jun 2009 This paper deals with the nationalist discourse in Maharashtra spanning over forty years. This discourse argued that educating women and non-Brahmins would amount to a loss of nationality. The nationa... Section: Occasional Papers
by Parimala V Rao | On 11 Jun 2009 This essay mainly examines the relationship between feminism and nationalism as a point from which it looks at South Asian feminist scholarship. The historical circumstances in their respective countr... Section: Occasional Papers
by Uma Chakravarti | On 03 Sep 2008 An important aspect that is often highlighted in the context of economic reforms, is the translation of labour market changes into defining or redefining gender relations and empowerment of women. In... Section: Occasional Papers
by Neetha N | On 19 Aug 2008 This paper is mainly concerned about the approaches to rural women’s development and an understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. Changes in the economic and social participation o... Section: Occasional Papers
by Kumud Sharma | On 15 Jun 2008 This essay mainly examines the relationship between feminism and nationalism as a point from which it looks at South Asian feminist scholarship. The historical circumstances in their respective countr... Section: Occasional Papers
by Uma Chakravarti | On 01 Jan 2008 The main thrust of this paper is: Why should women go to these courts to
settle matrimonial disputes while there are provisions for them in secular
courts? Do women face less harassment and get quic... Section: Occasional Papers
by Sabiha Hussain | On 05 Nov 2007 This paper is an attempt to explore the meaning and significance of political
participation within (a) the conceptual framework of democratic citizenship and
(b) debates surrounding representative d... Section: Occasional Papers
by Anupama Roy | On 10 Dec 2006 The present paper deals with the discourse of the rights of Muslim women in
the pre- independence period with particular reference to the Shariat Act
1937 and the Muslim Marriage Dissolution Act 193... Section: Occasional Papers
by Sabiha Hussain | On 20 Nov 2006 This joint paper attempts an unusual collaborative approach that offers an understanding of the problems that registered nurses of India have faced. Through this paper, the problem of ‘social status’... Section: Occasional Papers
by Sreelekha Nair | On 10 Nov 2006 Through over a century-long history, the women’s movement in India has been engaged with law as an
instrument with which to negotiate women’s rights. To a great extent this strategy has been successf... Section: Occasional Papers
by Centre for Women's Development Studies | On 21 Mar 2006 The essay is begun with a reference to a television programme on one of the Hindi
news channels - titled Burqe me Atankvad which was telecast sometime in mid-2005. The complex and turmoil-ridden and
... Section: Occasional Papers
by Vasanthi Raman | On 21 Jan 2006 In this paper the diverse dimensions of gender development are examined using
individual indicators for the districts of the western region of India. The western
region for the purpose of this study... Section: Occasional Papers
by Preet Rustagi | On 24 Nov 2005 Questions about the processes of empowerment generated under each of these interventions and also suggests synergistic linkages between the two are raised. Section: Occasional Papers
by Joy Deshmukh Ranadive | On 13 Nov 2005 This paper focuses on homebased women workers and discusses the specific issues of
their vulnerability as women and as workers, in the framework of their basic citizenship
right to economic and soci... Section: Occasional Papers
by Indrani Mazumdar | On 26 Jun 2005 The gap between the world of knowledge and the world of action, although
perennial, is probably the widest in the area of development. In no other
field is there such a sharp divergence between rati... Section: General
by Centre for Women's Development Studies | On 23 Feb 2002 This paper presents some of the findings of our recent study on women’s representation and participation in panchayats. Some of the findings of the study (Buch; 1999) of women in panchayats after the... Section: Occasional Papers
by Nirmala Buch | On 04 Dec 2000 The 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 c... Section: Occasional Papers
by Preet Rustagi | On 03 Jun 2000 The political role of women as a subject for research is of recent origin in India. It is significant
that there are so few studies of women's role in the nationalist movement or of the implications-... Section: Occasional Papers
by Leela Kasturi | On 17 Sep 1994 The discussion focusses on women in poverty their
concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational approach for their mobilization
and empowerment. Maximum emphasis has been placed on... Section: Occasional Papers
by Narayana K Banerjee | On 17 May 1994 Organisations are accepted as an instrument to provide collective strength, or
greater bargaining power, or to articulate the voice of an interest group. They may
also be recognised as a constituenc... Section: Occasional Papers
by Vina Mazumdar | On 15 Sep 1989 Science and technology have continuously enlarged the frontiers of human knowledge, growth
and development. The issue which keeps surfacing time and again and needs to be addressed
while planning ou... Section: Occasional Papers
by Kumud Sharma | On 15 Sep 1988 Long before Independence, the theme on which Gandhiji wrote repeatedly, was the
need to improve the status of Indian women. He drew attention to the fact that the
woman was ‘not only.... condemned t... Section: Occasional Papers
by Lotika Sarkar | On 14 Sep 1986 This paper aims to examine the policy debates on women's education and highlight some of the
basic issues affecting the progress of women's education since the introduction of planned
development in... Section: Occasional Papers
by Balaji Pandey | On 08 Feb 1986 The importance of Women's Organisations for bringing women within reach of the
development process is a recognised policy for women's development in India. However,
nature and functional role of suc... Section: Occasional Papers
by Narayan K. Banerjee | On 14 Sep 1985 The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an
understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies. [CWDS Working paper]. Section: Occasional Papers
by Kumud Sharma | On 01 Jan 1985 South Asian women and their status is being assessed here to highlight the similarities in the conditions faced by women despite the diversities stemming from class, religion, culture and locality. Th... Section: Research Papers
by Preeti Rustagi | On 01 Jan 1900 |