Category Archives: Gender Studies

Women entrepreneurs in the informal economy:   Is formalization the only solution for business sustainability?

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Sriram

by Shyama V. Ramani, Ajay Thutupalli, Tamas Medovarszki,  Sutapa Chattopadhyay and Veena Ravichandran UNU-MERIT 2013-018 The existing marketing, strategy and economics literature have little to offer by way of recommendations to promote entrepreneurship in the informal economy, except to advocate that multinationals, … Continue reading →

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National Commission for Women:An Overview of Its Performance

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Gopakumar

by Sadhna Arya Economi9c and Political Weekly, May04, 2013 The paper attempts an assessment of the National Commission for Women, which was created in 1992 as an autonomous apex body to monitor and influence state policies with regard to women. … Continue reading →

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The Concept of Honour: Caste Ideology and Patriarchy in Rural Maharashtra

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Gopakumar

by Manisha Gupte Economic and Political Weekly, May 04, 2013 Having established the fact that “honour” is not gender-neutral, this contentious concept has been examined by feminist scholars in the light of unequal power relations, control over women’s sexuality and … Continue reading →

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The Mathammas: Gender, Caste and the Politics of Intersectionalityin Rural Tamil Nadu

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Gopakumar

by S. Anandhi Economic and Political Weekly, May 04, 2013 There has been hardly any scholarly engagement with patriarchal practices that link caste, gender and land relations in the case of dalits. The ways in which consideration of caste status … Continue reading →

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Dalit Women as Political Agents: A Kerala Experience

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Gopakumar

by Rekha Raj Economic and Political Weekly, May 04, 2013 Articulating dalit women’s experiences by exposing the operations of history by which their struggles were co-opted, subsumed, misrepresented or sometimes erased by mainstream debates and tracing the survival strategies by … Continue reading →

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Caste and Gender in a Mumbai Resettlement Site

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Gopakumar

by Varsha Ayyar Economic and Political Weekly, May 04, 2013 This paper foregrounds specific experiences of urban dalit women affected by displacement, thereby underpinning the significance of caste, religion, identity and gender. Based on socio-anthropological research methods and extensive fieldwork … Continue reading →

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Measuring the Effect of a Community-level Program on Women’s Empowerment Outcomes: Evidence from India

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Anitha

Eeshani Kandpal, Kathy Baylis and Mary Arends-Kuenning The World Bank Development Research Group Poverty and Inequality Team  April 2013 Policy Research Working Paper 6399 This paper uses primary data from rural north India to show that participation in a community-level … Continue reading →

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Revisiting gender mainstreaming in international development. Goodbye to an illusionary strategy

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Sriram

by Ria Brouwers ISS Working Paper No 556 (April 2013) In contrast to the concrete problems women face worldwide, of discrimination in family and society, of violence and disrespect, of poverty and lack of rights, the policy of international development … Continue reading →

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Illusion of Women Empowerment in Microfinance:A Case Study

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Gopakumar

by Lakshmi Kumar Economic and Political Weekly, April 13, 2013 The traditional literature implies that women are empowered when they can exercise choices and are aware of alternatives, microfi nance being one of the most important catalysts. This research attempts … Continue reading →

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Measuring the effect of a community-level program on women’s empowerment outcomes : evidence from India

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Gopakumar

by Eeshani Kandpal; kathy Baylis and Mary Arends-Kuennings WB Policy Research paper no.WPS 6399, March 2013 This paper uses primary data from rural north India to show that participation in a community-level female empowerment program significantly increases access to employment, … Continue reading →

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