Women Education and Empowerment Book

Contents: Preface. List of contributors. 1. Enabling environment for women’s empowerment: role of universities/Mithilesh Kumar Sinha. 2. Indian women empowerment through education: a study/Baij Nath Singh. 3. Role conflicts of Indian women/S.S.S.S. Prabhakar, C. Ojha and Sunil Kumar. 4. Women empowerment: a literary reflection/D.P. Singh. 5. Women and vocational education — a bridge to employment and national development/Manish Kumar. 6. The theoretical and practical bases for women’s empowerment/Ashok Kumar Achal and Manish Kumar. 7. Crime against women/Biswakant Jha and Bishnu Dutt. 8. Role of training and education in the development of women empowerment in India/Chandrika Prasad. 9. Women’s education and empowerment/Bharat Bhushan and Kavita Kumari. 10. Women’s education and empowerment/Manikant Sinha. 11. Governance, empowerment and problems of women/Girish Nandan Sharma. 12. Empowerment of women through government-based schemes/Hari Narayan Pd. Singh, Ramkumar Prasad and Gayatri Kumari. 13. Violence against women and legislative changes/Md. Imteyaz Hassan. 14. Status of women and their empowerment/Krishna Kumar. 15. Women empowerment: an appraisal/Meenakshi Anand. 16. Women education and socio-political awakening/Namit Kumar. 17. Buddhist education and empowerment of women in early Buddhism/Namita Sinha. 18. Women empowerment through education: a critical study/Pankaj Kumar. 19. Women education and empowerment/Poonam Kumari. 20. Women’s education in historical perspective/Prabhakar Mishra. 21. Myth and reality of women empowerment: a critical appraisal/Pratima Sharan and Nutan Sinha. 22. Female alienation and women empowerment: special reference to cry, the peacock/R.P. Kachhway. 23. Women education and empowerment with special reference to Bihar/Ravindra Nath Singh. 24. Growing trend of crime and women/Rehana Khatoon. 25. Women education and empowerment/Satyendra K. Sinha and Upendra Kr. Sinha. 26. Role of women empowerment in Bihar/Satyendra Prajapati. 27. Women empowerment: a social challenge/Shambhu Narayan Singh. 28. Sexual crimes against women/Sheelam Verma. 29. Impetus for female education and empowerment in British India/Md. Tanvir Yunus. 30. Women empowerment: a door to liberation/Umesh Prasad. 31. Education: an effective weapon for women empowerment/Vijay Kumar Singh. Index.

"Women in some parts of India are yet empowered. The issues and reasons behind are not legal but structural and attitudinal. Education would surely liberate and equip women with ability to take control of her life, accomplish her dreams and enhance her status because educated women are empowered women." (jacket)