/*********************************************** * Expandable Sticky Bar- (c) Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com) * This notice MUST stay intact for legal use * Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for this script and 100s more. ***********************************************/ var mystickybar1=new expstickybar({settings})
 Old version
Home eSS Plug-in About Us Contact Us Login Register
eSocialSciences
Follow us on : eSocialSciences eSocialSciences
 
Other Papers >Gender Studies
Categories :
Gender and Innovation in South Asia
Women in South Asia have a great balancing act to perform, what with the dual burden of taking care of their homes and families and working outside the home or running a business. For them, mobili...
Category : Gender Studies
by Sujata Byravan | On 16 Feb 2008
Cities, Gender Budgeting and Civic Governance
The Budget is an important tool in the hands of the state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce e...
Category : Gender Studies
by Vibhuti Patel | On 03 Aug 2007
India: Second NGO Shadow Report on CEDAW: Executive Summary
The 2nd and 3rd NGO Alternative Report on CEDAW -- INDIA has just been submitted to the UN CEDAW Committee and is coming up for review in January 2007 in New York. Each of the chapters in the Reports...
Category : Gender Studies
by National Alliance of Women | On 06 Jan 2007
Women’s Right To Land, Assets, And Other Productive Resources: Its Impact On Gender Relations And Increased Productivity
It is often assumed that poverty reduction would lead to gender equality. Research however, points to the opposite, namely, that increasing prosperity can have perverse gender effects . It is therefor...
Category : Gender Studies
by Nitya Rao | On 09 Jun 2006
Gender Disaggregated Analysis of South Gujarat Tribals: Role of Social Capital in Human Development
This paper, based on ‘capabilities’ approach, analyses the ‘development outcomes’ forf ‘tribals’ of rural south Gujarat and examines the relative roles of physical, human and social capital within a...
Category : Gender Studies
by Arti Nanavati | On 26 Nov 2006
High Achievement in Mathematics and the Girl Child
This article reports on an investigation of the position of girls in respect of high achievement in mathematics. It is also aimed to collect and accumulate the reflections of of peopla asociated with...
Category : Gender Studies
by Satyendra N. Giri | On 30 Oct 2006
Motherhood, Mothers, Mothering: A Multidimensional Perspective
The question of matriarchate as female dominance, remains unresolved. While non materialist anthropologists dismissed it outright, socialist scholars accepted it as a stage in social evolution. If mat...
Category : Gender Studies
by Maithreyi Krishnaraj | On 09 May 2006
Empowerment of Women and Social Services: Needs Assessment, Obstacles and Strategies
Ensuing changes in the socio-economic structures and policies have a gender dimension and differentially impact on men and women. Prevailing ideas about gender relationships create an unequal access f...
Category : Gender Studies
by Veena Poonacha | On 21 Apr 2006
Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats Evenly?Health Investments and Gender Inequality in India
Gender inequality in South Asia is an important policy issue; gender imbalances in mortality have been of particular concern. Policy makers often argue that increasing the level of development and ac...
Category : Gender Studies
by Emily Oster | On 21 Mar 2006
The Dance of Ideas: Dialectical Relationship between Feminism and Philosophy
This paper attempts to delineate the dialectical relationship between feminism and philosophy, and begins by tracing the rise of feminist consciousness. This is because ideas do not exist in abstract...
Category : Gender Studies
by Veena Poonacha | On 04 Jan 2006
Sexual Assault Evidence Kit: Institutionalising a Model for Addressing Care and Evidence-Linked Issues
There is sufficient evidence to show that early and good quality documentation of evidence is associated with positive legal outcome and hence this area of reform in medico-legal services need to be a...
Category : Gender Studies
by Amita Pitre | On 20 Dec 2005
Uncertainity And Discrimination: Family Structure And Declining Sex Ratios In Rural India
This article builds upon the recognition that the declining child sex ratios are a result of an ongoing process of societal change. Looking at areas both in the north and in the south which have shown...
Category : Gender Studies
by Mattias Larsen | On 16 Apr 2007
eSS Column
eSS current affairs
All Rights Reserved(c) 2010 A Unit of IRIS Knowledge Foundation.
Developed & Maintained by IRIS