New Dimensions of Women Empowerment Book

Contents: List of contributors. Preface and introduction. I. Women empowerment: macro dimension: 1. Dialectics of women empowerment/G.S. Monga. 2. Women empowerment and development: global scenario and Indian experience/Ram Vinay Prasad Singh. 3. Policies and programmes for women's empowerment in the South Asian context/Puspa Tarafdar. 4. Gender equity, empowerment and diversity/Y. Padmavathi Dasharathi. 5. Woman empowerment/Nishikant Jha. 6. Goal of women welfare: the problems of priority for the planning of development/Kanak K. Pandey. 7. Empowerment of women in post-independent era: an analysis/Chandra Prakash Azad. 8. Empowerment of women in India–issues and challenges/S.M. Jawed Akhtar. 9. Gender disparities in India–an analyses/Md. Firdos Ahmad. 10. Gender inequality and women empowerment: a review/Jamil Ahmad. 11. Viable measures to be adopted for women empowerment on the basis of pragmatic consideration for metamorphosis of the system/Mohana Bandkar. II. Women empowerment: economic dimension: 12. Inequalities among the rural-urban females: some reflections on women empowerment in Indian economy/Tapati Sanyal. 13. Need of women empowerment in India/Anil Kumar Thakur. 14. Empowering women through economic measures/Kumkum Narain and Meera Mridiubhashini. 15. Recreating the budgetary process–women direct Fiscal Policy/Devaki Jain and Ahalya Bhatt. 16. Role of microfinance in empowering women/Rais Ahmad. 17. Economic empowerment of farm women through Vermi-technology–a case study of tribal areas/A.K. Roy and S.K. Tiwari. 18. Women power through Self-Help Groups/Priyam Krishna. 19. Empowerment of women through employment: an overview/Syed Noman Ahmad. 20. Women in labour market–an aspect of social justice/Dastgir Alam. III. Women empowerment: socio-political dimension: 21. Household decision-making and empowerment of adolescent girls in India/Ajit Kumar Sinha and Prabhat K. Pankaj. 22. Empowerment from within and without: towards self-actualization/K.M. Rege and G.S. Monga. 23. Tackling malnutrition among deprived women and children: a compelling priority in women's empowerment programme/G.R. Krishnamurthy and Anjali Ganesh. 24. Utility of education to promote women's empowerment and gender equality: a review/Md. Abdus Salam. 25. Education–the key measure for empowerment of women in India: need for a holistic approach/Marjorie Fernandes. 26. Role of higher education in women empowerment/Shradha Jain and Ravi Kumar Jain. 27. Empowering village women through education/Uma Sinha. 28. Growing "Feminization" of the AIDS–epidemic in India: a perspective/Akram A. Khan and Nazil Khan. 29. Factors affecting women's political participation and awareness/Shakuntla. IV. Women empowerment: regional dimension: 30. The role of women–empowerment through Gram Panchayats/K.K. Sinha. 31. Empowerment of women in Bihar/Prakash Louis. 32. Bihar PRI model for women empowerment/Subodh Kumar Sinha. 33. Political empowerment of women in Panchayati Raj: a micro level study/Sunil Kumar. 34. Focus on women empowerment and their socio economic development/Nilu Sinha. 35. Women empowerment in Haryana: a study of decision-making in the household economy/Mamta Rani and M.M. Goel. 36. Strategy for economic empowerment of women in Uttar Pradesh/D.M. Diwakar. 37. Economic empowerment of Women Chikan Workers in Uttar Pradesh/Awadhesh K. Singh. 38. Mainstreaming women empowerment: a perspective from Rajasthan/Praveen Sharma. 39. Women empowerment programmes in India with special reference to Madhya Pradesh/P.L. Sablok and Geetanjali Sharma. 40. A methodological framework for gender participation in agricultural resources: a study of Jhabua District of M.P./S.P. Singh and K.N. Krishna Kumar. 41. Empowerment of women in coastal regions: dynamics of micro credit/P. Jegadish Gandhi. V. Women empowerment: religious dimension: 42. Empowering women–a mission/Sr. Benedicta F. Pinto, A.C. 43. Economic upliftment of Muslim women/M. Saud Alam Qasmi. 44. Empowerment of Muslim women: need for affirmative action and social activism/Abdul Waheed. 45. Islam and women empowerment/Abuzar Kamaluddin. 46. Hinduism and women empowerment in India/Shakuntla and M.M. Goel. 47. Muslim women in India: myth and reality/S. Zainuddin. VI. Women empowerment: legal dimension: 48. Women empowerment in India: reality or myth/Ghanshyam N. Singh. 49. Legal empowerment of woman under Indian laws/Vijoy Kumar Singh. 50. Legal empowerment of women/S.C. Roy. Index.

"Development of women has been receiving attention of the government right from the very first plan (1951-56). But the same has been treated as a subject to welfare. The shift in the approach from welfare to development of women could have taken place only in the sixth plan (1980-85). Accordingly, the sixth plan document adopted a multi-disciplinary approach with a special thrust on three core sectors of health, education and employment. The seventh plan model, had followed suit. The eighth plan (1992-97) with a human development as a major focus, played a very important role in the development of women.

The ninth plan (1997-2002) made significant changes in the conceptual strategy of planning for women. The process of empowerment of women initiated during the ninth plan period has been continued in the tenth plan period also for empowering the women on a strong platform for action with definite goals, targets and time-frame. New measures for gender empowerment and equity will be essential components of the eleventh plan (2007-12)." (jacket)