| Description |
1 online resource (483 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Theoretical Issues -- The Major Impeding Structures -- Patriarchy and Unpaid Work -- Gender Issues In Selected Sectors -- Social Norms and Violence against Women -- Social Mobilization for Empowerment -- Expanding the Statistical Paradigm: Mainstreaming Time Use Surveys -- Social Development Index 2022 -- References -- Section I The Major Impeding Structure |
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1. Transforming Impeding Structures for Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality: Exploring Pathways -- Introduction -- Structural Barriers to Gender Equality -- Patriarchy -- Exclusion of Unpaid Domestic Services from Macroeconomy -- Contribution of Unpaid Work to the Conventional Macroeconomy -- Concerns Related to Unpaid Work and Workers -- Distortions Arising from the Exclusion of Unpaid Work -- The Gross Domestic Product -- Labour Market -- Time Stress and Care Deficiency -- Sub- Optimal Use of Labour Force -- Macroeconomic Policies under a Neo-Liberal Policy Framework |
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Integrating Unpaid Work with the Mainstream Economy -- Integrating Unpaid Work with GDP: Satellite Accounts of Unpaid Work -- Reorganizing Unpaid Work through Recognition, Reduction, and Redistribution -- Integrating Unpaid Work in Formulating and Monitoring Macroeconomic Policies -- Labour Market Policies for Women and Theory of Labour Market that Integrates Women's Unpaid Work -- Concluding Observations -- References -- 2. Revisiting the Feminist Project of Gendering Development: Why 'Framing' of Questions becomes Important? -- Why is 'Framing of Questions' Important? |
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The Long History and Continuing Saga of Land (Mal) Administration -- Official Speak on Land Administration, Land Reform, and Distributive Justice -- Mid-Term Appraisal: Eleventh Five-Year Plan, 2007-2012 -- Land-Based Struggles: Feminists Fighting for Entitlement to Land -- Framing Migration and Development from a Gender Perspective -- Framing Migration as 'Development Failure' -- Do Females Migrate? How Pervasive is Female Migration? Have Patriarchal Barriers Been Bent/Broken? -- Local (Within Country) Recruitment Practices: Implications for Migrants -- The International Dimensions of Migration |
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'Women Left Behind': Gendered Implications and Outcomes -- How Has Investment in Education Helped Migrants? -- 'Technologically' and 'Democratically' Challenged: Double Whammy Confronting Indian Women -- Addressing Women's Work: Therefore a 'Science and Technology Policy for Women' -- Where Women's Work Remains Officially Unrecognized: Therefore, No S&T Support -- Women in S&T Institutes and in IT Industry -- Assisted Reproductive Technologies: What Makes Them Hazardous -- What Do These Technology-Related Themes Signify? -- Concluding Observations -- References |
| Summary |
This report highlights that gender inequalities and women's subordination in India are caused by two formidable macro-structures: patriarchy and the exclusion of unpaid work from the macro-economy. The papers have explored pathways to break these structures gradually to achieve gender equality and empower women |
| Notes |
3. Social Norms and Attitudes towards Women's Entitlement to Land |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Social aspects -- India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198885993 |
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0198885997 |
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