| Description |
xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Profulla C. Sarker -- 2. Disability, poverty and patriarchy: a feminist analysis of the situations of disabled women in Bangladesh / Sanzida Z. Habib -- 3. Impact of Grameen Bank Credit programs on the role of rural women in Bangladesh: an empirical assessment / Tahmina Akhtar, M. Smar Faruk, M. Azizur Rahman -- 4. Women political participation in Bangladesh and India: symbolic or real? / Pranah Kumar Pandey -- 5. Widowhood in rural Purulia if India / Prafulla Chakrabarti -- 6. Women journalists in the print media of Bangladesh and their professional challenges / Pradip Kumar Pandey -- 7.Human rights and women's health in India / Paramananda Dash Sharma -- 8. Arsenicosis and its impact on domestic violence against women and children in Bangladesh / Profulla C. Sarker -- 9. Problems of married working women in India and their nature of adjustment / Bhaswati Roy, Soumyajit Patra, Samita Manna -- 10. Women's bid for equality in the United States: two steps forward and one step back / Katherine van Wormer -- 11. Women and patriarchy in rural China / Maria Cheung, Meng Liu, Toula Henonen -- 12. Socio-cultural parameters of gender disparity and old age insecurity of the women in patriarchal society / Profulla C. Sarker |
| Summary |
With special reference to India and Bangladesh; contributed articles |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Patriarchy -- Bangladesh.
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Patriarchy -- India.
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Women in development -- Bangladesh.
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Women in development -- India.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Bangladesh -- Social conditions.
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Women -- India -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Sarker, Profulla Chandra.
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| LC no. |
2010316743 |
| ISBN |
8183873308 |
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9788183873307 |
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