WOMEN and their problems have acquired a steadily growing importance in social sciences. Hence, after realising the significant role of women, it is desirable that a greater emphasis should be given for her all-round development and as such imparting education and providing employment to this vast segment of population becomes prime need of the hour. But even today, nowhere do women have equal rights and status with men. Although the United Nations recognise equality of women, yet there is a lot of discrimination on the basis of sex. Crushing poverty overlaid with long-standing patterns of discrimination create conditions for women which threaten their well-being, deny their choice about child-bearing, limit opportunities for education and training, restrict economic participation and curtail social, political and economic rights. As daughters, wives and mothers, they are caught in life cycle that begins with unequal treatment, with Carly marriage and often ends with in child birth.
Bringing women out of the house and enabling them to join the mainstream of national life is certainly an important step. In fact, after independence, it was made obligatory to consider women as a weaker section and the Constitution has guaranteed certain Fundamental Rights and special provisions for protection of women. Government launched several programmes and policies for bringing about all round development of women. However, in the initial stages no serious attempts were made to cover the welfare of women under these schemes. But latter on it was realised that the success of community development programmes greatly depends on the co-operation and tacit acceptance of it by the rural women too. At present, the economic stresses and strains experienced by the modern society have compelled the women to find-out means to augment their family income. The economic status of women plays a key role in determining her social status as their inferior social status is based on the implicit assumption that their labour is generally unproductive and the need for production, particularly in the country-side, calls for new skills. The reality of the present situation however is that the large mass of Indian women faces today lack of opportunities to acquire these new skills. It is well established that women are an important component in the complex subject of development who constitute nearly half of the population and cannot be ignored for any planned and rapid progress of the nation.
The present edited volume covers diverse aspects of the subject through research papers and articles. This joint venture is a multi-disciplinary investigation into various aspects of pressing socio-economic and political problems facing Indian women. It is an academic exercise undertaken to provide an overall view on issues and problems related to women and includes the valuable contributions from distinguished social scientists to present a more comprehensive view on the subject one wishes to know. Taking women fully into consideration as the primary producers of population, this collection stresses the necessity of according priority to appropriate policy intervention designed for women development.
The book contains 12 Chapters where in the first Dr. Kumar and Harish have reviewed the women's status, their problems and perspectives. It was emphasised that the inferior status of women is established right at the birth. There are substantial disparities in the education of boys and girls at all the stages. In terms of employment women are lagging behind. But even then, they play very distinct role in the development of the nation.
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