India and Gender
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- BRIDGE
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Search BRIDGE's database of gender-focused material
- The BLDS gender collection
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Search for the latest gender-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Women have a right to be included in international peace negotiations
- C. Buchanan / Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2011
- Ensuring women's fair representation and diverse contributions to peacemaking remains a major challenge. This publication explores the reasons for women’s under-representation in peace processes, both in terms of their participa...
- Responding to the learning and developmental needs of out-of-school adolescents
- G. Kasinathan / IT for Change, 2011
- The document discusses the background, strategies, outcomes, challenges and learnings of Kishori Chitrapata, a project of IT for Change that addresses the learning needs of out-of-school adolescent girls through innovative uses of ICT...
- Does Female Reservation Affect Long-term Political Outcomes? Evidence from rural India
- K Deininger / World Bank, 2012
- Although many studies have explored the impacts of political quotas for females, often with ambiguous results, the underlying mechanisms and long-term effects have received little attention. This paper uses nation-wide data from India...
- Twin tracking for women with disabilities in disability legislation
- R. Gupta / Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, India, 2011
- Women with disabilities face multiple discrimination and have lived experiences distinct from those of non-disabled women and of other persons with disability. However, such experiences have remained largely invisible in law and polic...
- Rising food crisis and financial crisis in India: impact on women and children and ways of tackling the problem
- 2012
- The objective of the study is to examine the impact of rising food prices and financial crisis on the impact of women and children in India. It identifies the pathways for dealing with the effects of these two crisis on households par...
- Learning from women to create gender inclusive cities: baseline findings from the Gender Inclusive Cities programme
- Women in Cities International, 2012
- The goal of the Gender Inclusive Cities programme is to is to enhance women’s inclusion and “right to the city”. The purpose of this report is to share the data collected in the first year of the programme on the state ...
- Evolving Men: Initial Results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES)
- G. Barker / International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2011
- This report summarizes multi-country findings from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), a comprehensive household questionnaire on men’s attitudes and practices – along with women’s opinions and...
- Masculinity and its role in gender-based violence in public spaces
- S. Srivastava / Centre for Equity and Inclusion, 2012
- This paper reflects the position that in order to comprehend the nature of gender inequalities we must closely interrogate the relationship between gender identities in their various social, cultural, economic and political contexts.....
- Mainstreaming gender perspective in the national health programmes: the challenges ahead
- L.K. Piang 2010
- Poverty and ill health affect both men and women. However, the problems get compounded for women for many reasons like lack of resources, decisionmaking, etc... This paper examines some of the National Health Programmes and the gender...
- From invalidation and segregation to recognition and integration: contemporary state responses to disability in India
- R. Addlakha / Centre for Women's Development Studies, 2010
- Persons with disabilities are amongst the most disempowered groups. Due to their marginal status, they are denied the fundamental civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights that are the prerogative of all citizens in a dem...
- Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia
- Strengthening the capacity for gender mainstreaming in South Asia
- Network of Women in Media
- Network connects women in media professions across India
- Centre for Civil Society, India (CCS)
- Indian Think Tank with a research focus on civil society and social sciences
- The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS)
- Indian centre for social science research in media and governance
- Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS)
- Indian research centre specialising in gender-based research
- M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, India (MSSRF)
- Promoting gender based economic growth in India
- Human Development Resource Centre, India
- Translating concepts of human development into action
- ProPoor.org
- Non-profit making website addressign issues related to social development
