Women and Gender Equality in India
Description:
Publisher: GB Books and Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement
Year of Publication: 2022
About the Book
Despite being one of the largest economies in the world, India lags behind many countries around issues of gender equality. In the past decade, while Indian GDP has grown by around 6 per cent, there has been a large decline in female labour force participation from 34 per cent to 27 per cent. With gender discrimination becoming increasingly prominent part of the global agenda, India too became a signatory to path-breaking legislations including human rights instruments and action plans of four conferences convened by the United Nations on Women’s issues.
‘Women and Gender Equality in India’ consists of 11 edited chapters that attempt to develop a wider gamut of understanding of the nature and importance of gender equality, gender roles and gender relations while encouraging equal participation in the overall development of the giant economy like India. The book is woven around ‘gender’ as a ‘core’ theme, with special focus on political, religious, and cultural issues of post-globalized Indian society. It questions how gender has become a discriminating tool in the distribution of government jobs, elections, policies, religions, income, education and political process in general.