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.

Every year, as millions of women marry, they dream of starting a family, of having their homes filled with tiny cries and the happy laughter of gurgling babies. In India however, pregnancy is too often followed by the question of
whether the unborn child is a girl or a boy.

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)

How does one analytically locate the social phenomenon manifested in India during the last few years since the advent of sex-selection technology in the mid- 70s?