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:
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.
