Paper II Development Strategies for Women Empowerment

Unit 1:
Development and Empowerment: Meaning and its Historical Development

• Road to from Margins to Centre of Development
• Gender Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
• CEDAW
• Women Empowerment Policy 2001

Unit 2:
Women and Education

• Gender Discriminations in Education
• Women and Their Knowledge Systems
• Programmes and Strategies for Development of education for Women
• Changing Gender Perspectives in Education: Case of National Curriculum Framework of NCERT

Unit 3:
Political Participation of Women: Representation, Reservation and Decision-Making -Over-view of Women’s Political Participation

• Panchayati Raj and Women’s Participation
• Women’s Reservation and Politics of Women’s Issues

Unit 4: Women’s Work and Economic Empowerment

• Dual Responsibilities of Work and Measuring Un-paid Labour by Women
• Changing Concepts of ‘Work’ for Women
• Informal industry and Feminisation of Labour
• Shramshakti Report and its Recommendations
• Women’s Labour and Legal Measures
• Women and their Property Rights

Unit 5:
Women’s Rights, Institutions and Legal Measures
 

• UNIFEM, National and State Commission of Women, Family Courts, Beijing Conference, VAW, Feminist Dialogue and World Social Forum
• Laws Providing Protection from Dowry, Dowry Deaths, Domestic Violence, Cruelty, Child-Marriage, Sati and its glorification, Rape, Sexual Harassment at Work Place, Molestation, and Other Aspects of Violence against Women.
• Legal Provisions in terms of Marriage and Family

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