There is a growing focus on generating evidence on violence against informal women workers across the world.
The agriculture sector as a whole has developed and emerged immensely by empowering men with technology.
The journey from unemployment or employment to self-employment is liberating in multiple ways for the Indian woman.
Agriculture is the largest employer and it provides employment to both Men and Women but the ratio of their employment in the sector is not significantly different.
This study is the outcome of an in depth research engagement with 20 villages in two blocks of one district of Odisha.
Education is a basic human right; and it plays a significant role in the development of a human being, a society, a community and a country.
India has the distinction of being the first country in the developing world to initiate a family planning programme-it later came to be called the Family Welfare Programme (FWP)-with a view to bring down the country's fertility level and contain population growth.
The women's groups were able to actively agitate against population control policies at conference on environment held in Rio-de-Janeiro in 1992, at conference on human rights at Vienna 1993, and then they were able to get the POA (Programme of Action) of the conference on population and developm
The planet is getting polarized in demographic and economic terms. Developing countries experience problems with their population growth along with pervasive poverty.