The Integral Child Development Scheme (ICDS) with its network of anganwadis covering more than 3000 Community Development Blocks in the country is perhaps the the largest women and child development programme being Implemented anywhere in the world.
This paper explores one of the key issues in current research on gender and development: the links between poverty and young women’s employment. Specifically, the following questions were addressed, in the context of Kerala: Which young women work for pay and why?
India has emerged as one of the major garment producing and exporting
In India, as per census 1981, around 11 million children in the age group 5-14 are in the labour force as main workers, and another 2.21 million children participate in the labour market
The concern of this paper is limited to the approaches to rural women's development and an understanding of their work roles in the planning strategies.
The theoretical framework of this paper takes into an account the relationship between women’s work in subsistence agriculture and the rural development strategies, both at the local and national levels.
There are two major competing explanations for the relation betwee
It is by now almost an axiom with demographers, labour economists and economic historians th
The general belief that paddy cultivation is associated with the presence of women workers in agriculture, and, in particular, of women wage labourers, is largely based on the experience of east and south-east A