Gender and discrimination : health, nutritional status, and role of women in India /
"Gender discrimination has far reaching consequences on society. Contributed by experts from divergent fields, the essays in this volume critically investigate the economic, social, religious, and psychological aspects of women in every sphere of life, and suggest how we can measure the inheren...
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Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- (En)gendering poverty policy in India /
- Bina Fernandez
- Women and agriculture in India : work and wages /
- Madhura Swaminathan
- Gender, religion, and the age at marriage in India /
- Sriya Iyer
- Invisibility and ordeal of women workers in India /
- Amal Mandal
- Will increasing women's power reduce discrimination against girl children in South Asia? /
- Lisa C. Smith and Elizabeth M. Byron
- Maternal literacy and child malnutrition in India /
- Vani K. Borooah
- Gender, poverty, and HIV transmission in India /
- Koumari Mitra
- Gender differences in early childhood feeding practices : rural west Bengal /
- Aparna Pandey
- Health and nutritional status of school-age children : some gender and age differentials /
- Tara Gopaldas
- Gender bias and family planning programme in India /
- Amitabh Tewari and Suruchi Tewari
- Heart disease among South Asians : role of gender /
- Sumita Das Sarkar and Ahana Sarkar
- On some measures of gender discrimination /
- Manoranjan Pal and Premananda Bharati
- Gender dimorphism : discrimination in rural India, 1930-1975 /
- Aravinda Meera Guntupalli and Alexander Moradi
- A new measure of gender bias /
- Diganta Mukherjee
- Gender bias in mortality? : 'An update on missing women' /
- Stephan Klasen and Claudia Wink.