This paper addresses the issues of women and economic development connecting the local to the global. It also attempts to review development concepts with reference to women’s existence.
Economic Activities - Introduction, Breton woods Conferences, WTO and marginalization of women’s Work
Production and Distribution: Formal and Informal Labour and space of women
Different Sectors of Indian Economy: Industry and Agriculture and women’s visibility
Patterns of Consumption: Intra Household Divisions, Entitlements and Bargaining, Unpaid Labour and the Care Economy
Concepts of Development, Underdevelopment and Human Development.
Unit I
Chandiramani, Nilima, World Trade Organisations and Globalisation, An Indian Overview, Shroff Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai 1999, pp 37-42, 111-117, 125-132.
Acharya, Sarthi, ‘Women’s Work and Economic Development’ in Krishnaraj, Maithreyi, Women Studies in India, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1986
Unit II
Dr. Tripathy S.N. and Das, Soudamani, Informal Women Labour in India, Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi 110002
Gandhi, Nandita and Shah, Nandita, ‘Labouring for Love and Wages’ in The Issues at Stake, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1992
Unit III
‘Economic Reforms and Agriculture’ in Joshi, Mahesh V, Economic Reforms in India, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, pp 1-43.
Unit IV
Palriwal, Rajni, Economics and Patriliny: Consumption and Authority within the Household, in Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, pp 414-424.
Unit V
Ghatak, Subrata, Introduction to Development Economics, Routledge, Delhi 2007 pp 351-361 (Structural Adjustment and Development)
Readings
Unit I
Chandiramani, Nilima, World Trade Organisations and Globalisation, An Indian Overview, Shroff Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai 1999, pp 37-42, 111-117, 125-132.
Acharya, Sarthi, ‘Women’s Work and Economic Development’ in Krishnaraj, Maithreyi, Women Studies in India, Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1986
Unit II
Dr. Tripathy S.N. and Das, Soudamani, Informal Women Labour in India, Discovery Publishing House, New Delhi 110002
Gandhi, Nandita and Shah, Nandita, ‘Labouring for Love and Wages’ in The Issues at Stake, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1992
Unit III
‘Economic Reforms and Agriculture’ in Joshi, Mahesh V, Economic Reforms in India, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, pp 1-43.
Unit IV
Palriwal, Rajni, Economics and Patriliny: Consumption and Authority within the Household, in Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008, pp 414-424.
Unit V
Ghatak, Subrata, Introduction to Development Economics, Routledge, Delhi 2007 pp 351-361 (Structural Adjustment and Development)