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T his volume is a compilation of different papers written by the scholars of various disciplines which cover anthropology, sociology, social work, psychology, public administration, journalism and mass-communication. The main focus of this volume is to examine the problems of women in the different phases of their life cycle and to what extent the women want that patriarchal social system should exist. The main intention of this volume is to address the situation of disabled women and how they are being the victims of gender discrimination in connection with education, health care, rehabilitation and violence. This volume also discusses the impact of credit programs of Grameen Bank on the changing role of women in relation to their life style, awareness, and living standards. This volume highlights the political participation of women in local government and also the impediments in their participation in local government administration. Further, widowhood and the problems of widows in traditional peasant society in India, status of women journalists and how they are being discriminated in different perspectives in male dominated societies. Also discussed in this volume are aspects of human rights, and the situation of women`s health, and to what extent the women arsenic victims are being subjected to domestic violence along with their children, these are some of the problems which have been discussed in this volume. Beside these the problems of married working women and their nature of adjustment, women`s bid for equality in the USA, and to what extent the complex interplay of socio-economic, political, and cultural forces are associated with marginal position of women in rural China and socio-cultural parameters of gender disparity and old age insecurity of the women in patriarchal society.
ISBN 9788183873307
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Pages : 283
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