Introduction to Women and Development

Paper Code: 
WMS 402
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This paper intends to give an introductory understanding of development issue in India, UN, other International organizations and NGOs in India and their relation with women, and reservation for women in political sphere. This will make students aware of the various levels of existences to discover what it takes to make women empowered.

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Unit I: 

Women and the issues of development in India: with reference to Education and Health

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Reservation for women, 73rd and 74th Amendments

Empowerment of women through political participation: Panchayati Raj and Municipalities

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Development of Women through Economic participation – public and private sectors

 

 

 

9.00

Role of United Nations, & NGO in the development of Women,

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Unit V: 

Assessing and analyzing developmental issues and their impact on women.

 

Essential Readings: 

Unit II

Singh, Dr. Hoshiar; Local Government, pp 1-17, 19-36, Kitab Mahal, Allahabad, 1997, 

Buch, Nirmala; Women and Panchayats: Opportunities and Challenges pp343-365, in Jain, L C, ed. Decentralisation and Local Governance, Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2005

Unit III

Poonacha, Veena, Women in Decision Making in Private Sector in India, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai 1996

Poonacha, Veena, ed. Women, Empowerment and Political Participation, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai 1997

 

References: 
  1. Sinha, Niroj, Empowerment of Women Through Political Participation, Kalpaz Publications, Delhi, 2007
  2. Das, Veena, ed. Handbook of Indian Sociology, OUP, New Delhi 2004
  3. S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996
  4. Banerjee, Somya, National Policy for Women, Arise Publishers & Distributers, New Delhi, 2009
  5. Kabeer, N., Reversed Realities, London: Verso, 1995.
  6. Hasan, Zoya (ed.) Forging Identities: Gender Communities and State, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1994
  7. Kumar, Radha. The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1993
  8. Rao N, Rump L & Sudershan R (ed.), Site of Change, UNDP, New Delhi, 1996
  9. Janaki Nair, Law in Colonial India, Delhi, Kali for Women, 1996
  10. Lucy Caroll, The Law, Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu ‘Widow’s Remarriage Act of 1856’ in J Krishnamurti ed. Women in Colonial India, Delhi OUP, 1989.
  11. Agarwal, Bina, Field of her Own, Kali for Women, New Delhi
  12. JC Johri, Principals of Modern Political Science, Sterling Publisher, 1995
  13. Kapur, Ratna (ed.), Feminist Terrains in Legal Terrains, Kali for Women, Delhi 1996
  14. Butalia U, Sarkar, T (ed.), Women and the Hindu Right, Kali for Women, New Delhi 1996.
Academic Session: 
2015-16
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