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.

Trade facilitation measures improve the trading environment by reducing transaction costs and thereby increasing the gains from trade.

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.

Scrutiny and control of women's sexuality and women's reproductive role by the state are well recognized in the history of societies [Sarkar 1993]. Tribal wars over possession of women were rooted in the struggle for survival of the tribe itself.