Women's Welfare and Development

Paper Code: 
MSW422
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

To impart an understanding of the changing perspectives of the roles of women.

•        To develop an ability to identify need areas of women.

•        To provide intervention skills.

•        To develop ability to identify social systems that effect functioning of women.

 

12.00
Unit I: 

 

Status of women through Ages in India.

Patriarchy and Gender Inequality in India: Retrospect and Prospect

12.00
Unit II: 

Indicators of Women’s position-Issues and Challenges:

•        Demographic Profile

•        Education

•        Health

•        Employment and Work - Organized Sector, Unorganized Sector, Self Employed

12.00
Unit III: 

Gender analysis through Harvard Analytical Framework and Moser Framework

12.00
Unit IV: 

Crimes against women: Nature and motivations in violence

Domestic violence: Concepts, factors and measures

Nature of Women’s Movement in India-Paradigm Shift from welfare to empowerment.

12.00
Unit V: 

Role of Women’s Organizations and Voluntary Action in Women’s Development

Traditional and Emerging Role of Professional Social worker in the field of Women’s Development

 

References: 
  • Aggarwal, Beena 1994, A field of one’s own: gender, land and rights in South Asia, Delhi: Cambridge University Press.
  • Calman, Leslie J. (ed.) 1992, Towards empowerment: women and movement politics in India, San Francisco: Westveiw Press.
  • Choudhary, Prem. 1994, The Unveiled Woman – Shifting gender equations in rural Haryana 1800-1990, Oxford University Press.
  • Committee on the Status of Women in India, 1974, Towards Equality: Report, New Delhi: Government of India, Ministry of Education and Social Welfare.
  • Dubey, Leela and Palkiwala, Rajni (eds.), 1990, Structure and Strategies: Women, Work and Family, New Delhi: Sage.
  • Forbes, Garaldine, 1996, Women in Modern India – The new Cambidge History of India, Cambridge University Press.
  • Omvedt, Gail. 1990. Violence Against Women: New Movements and New Theories in India. New Delhi: Kali for Women.
  • Government of India, 1988, National Perspective Plan for Women, 1988-2000 A.D. New Delhi: Department of Women and Child Development.
  • Gandhi, Nandita and Shah, Nandita, 1993, Issues at Stake: Theory and Practice in the Contemporary Women’s Movement in India. New Delhi: Kali for Women.
  • Kumar Radha, 1993, History of Doing: an illustrated Account of Movement for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India 1800-1990. New Delhi: Kali for women.

 

 

 

Academic Session: 
2019-20
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