Women’s Welfare and Development

Paper Code: 
MSW 422
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.
     
Unit I: 
  • Status of women through Ages in India.
  • Patriarchy and Gender Inequality in India : Retrospect and Prospect
Unit II: 

Indicators of Women’s position - Issues and Challenges :

  • Demographic Profile
  • Education
  • Health
  • Employment and Work - Organized Sector, Unorganized Sector, Self Employed
     
Unit III: 
  • Gender analysis through Harvard Analytical Framework and Moser Framework
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.
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: 
  1. Aggarwal, Beena 1994, A field of one’s own: gender, land and rights in South Asia, Delhi: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Calman, Leslie J. (ed.) 1992, Towards empowerment: women and movement politics in India, San Francisco: Westveiw Press.
  3. Choudhary, Prem. 1994, The Unveiled Woman – Shifting gender equations in rural Haryana 1800-1990, Oxford University Press.
  4. Committee on the Status of Women in India, 1974, Towards Equality: Report, New Delhi: Government of India, Ministry of Education and Social Welfare.
  5. Dubey, Leela and Palkiwala, Rajni (eds.), 1990, Structure and Strategies: Women, Work and Family, New Delhi: Sage.
  6. Forbes, Garaldine, 1996, Women in Modern India – The new Cambidge History of India, Cambridge University Press.
  7. Omvedt, Gail. 1990. Violence Against Women: New Movements and New Theories in India. New Delhi: Kali for Women.
  8. Government of India, 1988, National Perspective Plan for Women, 1988-2000 A.D. New Delhi: Department of Women and Child Development.
  9. 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.
  10. 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: 
2018-19
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