| Description |
1 online resource (345 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Women in higher education: An overview -- Women in development -- Women and education -- Women and employment -- Women in leadership -- India higher education report 2022: women in higher education -- Women, education and development -- Women's access to HE and their educational inter-generational mobility |
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Women's field of study, representation in research programmes and career trajectories -- Women in academic profession and leadership positions in higher education -- Gender-responsive policies and HEIS strategies for inclusion on campuses -- References -- Part I: Women, education and development -- Chapter 2: Education, development and employment: The ongoing crisis in women's employment and its revelations -- Introduction -- Education and economic development -- Women and education -- How inclusive is labour market? Relationship between education and women's employment |
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Nature and sectors of women's employment -- Educated women in the education sector -- Caste and education: women across sub-sectors of services -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Women's access to HE and their educational inter-generational mobility -- Chapter 3: Women enrolment in higher education -- Enrolment patterns: access by social groups -- Poverty and enrolment -- First-generation learners in higher education -- Programmes/disciplines and women enrolment -- diversification or stereotypes? -- Enrolment expansion and availability of hostels -- Conclusion -- References |
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Chapter 4: Access to higher education of women from disadvantaged groups and minorities -- Introduction -- Educational attainments of women from disadvanagted communities -- Enrolments of women in higher educational institutions -- Choices of streams of education by disadvantaged -- Factors determining access to higher education -- Affirmative actions -- Geographic access -- Belonging and connection with institutions -- Access to ICT technologies, open-access educational websites and COVID-19 -- Early marriages and religious institutions like purdah |
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NEP 2020 and its possible impact on women from disadvantaged groups -- Conclusions -- A Appendix Tables -- References -- Chapter 5: From gender parity to gender prism: Looking beyond enrolment parity to explore gendered conditions of access to higher education in Haryana, India -- Introduction -- Gender parity to gender prism -- Presentation of the empirical study -- Through the gender prism: a refractive analysis of gendered conditions of access to HE -- Family background -- Indicator 1: Place in family -- Indicator 2: Parents' educational attainment -- Schooling trajectory |
| Summary |
This book studies the various dimensions of gender inequality that persist in higher education and employment in India |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Indicator 1: Type of school |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- India
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Educational equalization -- India
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Women -- Education (Higher) -- India
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Women in education -- India
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Women -- India -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects
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Educational equalization
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Women -- Education (Higher)
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Women in education
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Women -- Social conditions
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sabharwal, Nidhi S
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| ISBN |
9781000918502 |
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1000918505 |
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