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.

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.

The journey from unemployment or employment to self-employment is liberating in multiple ways for the Indian woman.

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.

IT is indeed a tall claim, almost an impossible task - to set in motion the immobile-to create spectators who would continue to perform.

The high female infant mortality rates (Miller, 1985); the practice of female infanticide (Krishnaswamy, 1988); the neglect of female children with regard to access to health services, nutrition, (Sen and Sengupta, 1983 and education (Mankekar, 1985); and the sexual abuse of girls (Bhalerao, 1985

STRONG preference for sons over daughters exists in the Indian subcontinent, east Asia, north Africa and west Asia unlike in the western countries [Muthurayappa et al 1997, Lancet 1990, Okun 1996].