In the recent assembly elections, we were once again inundated with information about how much of a difference the women’s vote made to the outcome.
There is a growing focus on generating evidence on violence against informal women workers across the world.
It was the tragic death by suicide that has laid bare the daily trauma of the three sisters from a landless household married to an affluent family with demands for dowry from impoverished parents.
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's efforts to promote family planning have produced a significant increase in the couple protection rate (CPR) which has increased by about 33 percent during the last 22 years-from 10.4 percent in 1970 to 43.5 in 1992.