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.
This article presents in-depth ethnographic evidence of women’s lived experience of arranged marriages and love marriages, their agency and constraints in a working class neighbor hood of New Delhi.
Reproductive health [1] practices among Muslim women in India have been little researched perhaps because of the widespread notion regarding the tight Islamic control over sexual behaviour and the sanctions against contraceptive use.
As women become more involved in public life and break patriarchal control in the process, they also deal with the backlash of cultural, traditional and religious reaction. Various interpretations of Muslim law are promoted by different groups in the struggle over women's rights.