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Prof. Asha Shukla
Gender Senstivity and inequality is a major concern in the private and public sphere.
Discriminatory practices existing at home and society produces gender gap in learning and skill
development. School text books, print media, social media and other digital forms of the media
percolate gender norms and paves way to gender discrimination. For example, according to the
UNICEF report, 1 in 4 girls, between the ages of 15 and 19, are neither employed nor in education
or training, compared to 1 in 10 boys. The same report also shows that 1 in 20 girls between the
ages of 15 and 19, faced forced sex in their lifetimes. Globally it accounts to 13 million girls who
faced forced sex between the ages of 15 and 19. Not only girls but boys also face gender
discrimination…
Prof. Asha Shukla & Dr. Jaya Phookan
Rural women globally face persistent gaps in access to resources, knowledge and services. Gender
roles reduce rural women's participation in labour markets and confine them to lower paid and more
precarious employment.Generating livelihood opportunities for women and economic
empowerment of women is a major area of concern which can reduce the gender gap which exits
especially in the context of rural women. Programmes such as NRLM and MGNREGA are
addressing some of the structural and institutional constraints rural women face in realizing their
right to livelihoods, resources, decent work and social protection…
Prof. Vibhuti Patel
Crimes in the name of ‘honour’ are on a rise in our country. Both rural as well as urban areas are
gripped with instances of horrific crimes where young citizens of our country are being killed for
exercising their democratic right of choosing their life partners. The democratic minded people of
our country are both shocked and distressed by these incidents. With changing economic and
political contexts inter-mixing of boys and girls has increased in schools, colleges, clubs,
workplaces and while long distance regular travelling in local buses and trains. Liberal education
also makes them question inequalities based on gender, social and caste status. In the era of
capitalist expansion, among the upper stratum of society, marriages are determined to enhance
capital accumulation, facilitate mergers and business collaborations, increase property and develop
joint businesses…
Prof. Rekha Pande
Human rights are important in our day-to-day lives, because of that recognition and application of
the concepts and thoughts of human rights forms the basis of a just society. Today it has become
clear that human rights’ issues which affect women in particular and play a critical role in the quest
to achieve a fair and just society. Women’s place in every society is a vital to the well-being of that
society, for without their work in the formal sector as well as in the informal sector and the family,
most communities could not survive. The idea of women's human rights owes its popularity and
usage to the fact that it is both prosaic and ground-breaking. First, the notion of women's human
rights makes common sense. This asserts that women as human beings have equal rights…
Prof. Debashis Debnath
Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedakar was a great personality, thinker, philosopher, social
reformer-cum-reconstructor and Nation builder, who highlighted various issues in pre-independence
India, especially the liberation of the depressed and untouchable communities in the caste-ridden
Brahmanical administrative society to bring out the social changes through Constitutional
safeguards. He believed in social transformation through his emphasis on the human rights, state
socialism and political democracy through awakening, awareness generation, political manoeuvres,
upliftment and legislations with the application of his intellectuality and his role in the drafting of
Indian constitution, which is basically social concern. After the attainment of Independence, Indian
constitution-based on governance system carried out a number of changes in our social system
towards class-based society and but…
Prof. Vinita Dhondiyal Bhatnagar
This paper attempts to explore the correlation between gender and crisis leadership in the context of
the fight against coronavirus raging through the world in 202-21. It has been observed that
wherever alpha male leadership was displayed, the effects have been catastrophic in dealing with
the pandemic. In sharp contrast the women leaders have led their countries well through this public
health crisis. The paper will attempt to understand what factors went into this successful handling of
a black swan event…
Dr. Sandesh M. Wagh
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar played very important role in the history of women’s emancipation
movement and history of Feminism in India. It is said that philosophers have interpreted the world
but the real task was to change it. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar not only theorized the concept of
feminism and women’s emancipation movement and but he has practically laid the foundations of
women’s emancipation movement in India. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar is yet not recognized as
towering personality in the history of Feminism, by the various scholars in India. But the fact is in
the History of Women’s Emancipation movement in India. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar played a vital
role in giving the human rights to the women in India. The present paper highlights Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar’s Vision for Social Assimilation and Women Empowerment…
Ms. SuvarnaBhujbal & Dr.Rohini Sudhakar
Once the institution of marriage is recognised legally then divorce is a must to terminate this marital
relation. Marriage is not always happy ending and in the present, young people are considering it
necessary to terminate if its not happy, satisfying relationship. This study is conducted in the Family
Court, Mumbai to understand the changing trends in the mutual consent divorce cases, which are
increasing in number and happening with the separation within one year of marriage. Mixed
method research approach applied in the study. The quantitative study was conducted with the 377
litigants (Women 190 and Men 187) by survey method and qualitative data collected from 32
(Women 15 and Men 17) out of 377 respondents by in depth interview. Major finding is that non
compatibility issues are major for mutual consent divorce and which are realised within one year of
their marriage…
Dr. Ratna Mulay
Malnutrition in India has remained a major problem, despite being independent with sufficient of
grains for more than 40 years. According to WHO reports, there are 1.8 billion people suffering
from MN (Malnutrition) and MND (Micro -Nutrient Deficiencies) in the world, out of which half
resides in India. Men, women, children, adolescents all. But children and women are hit the most
and worst by MN and MND due to various factors, of which main are Malnutrition, Social and
cultural, Economic, Literacy/illiteracy, Poor access to food and, Lack of Political will. MN & MND
leads to stunting, wasting, higher morbidity and mortality, affects physical, mental and
psychological growth, reduces earning capacity. On the other side it may lead to obesity and related
problems…
Dr. Shalini Chawla
Afghanistan has been the toughest and (it would not be incorrect to say) the worst place for women.
The journey of an Afghan woman has been extremely challenging where she struggles for basic
rights from the ‘cradle to grave’. Although Afghanistan has not seen peace and stability for more
than four decades now, the Afghan women have managed to earn freedom and equal rights in the
society under the civilian rule in the last 18 years. Indeed, one of the most critical achievements of
the Afghan state has been women empowerment. One of the major concerns within Afghanistan
and especially, Afghan women is that what will be the future of women in the country given the fact
that the Taliban are likely to hold a political position in the new establishment? The paper explores
the answers to this basic question…
Dr. Manoj Kumar Gupta
The decade of 90s can be called the decade of political reconstruction of rural India. Significantly,
the 73rd Constitutional Amendment made the holistic democratic decentralization of the Indian
democratic system. The Panchayat elections held after 1992 not only changed the political idioms
in principle, but also instilled confidence in expanding the responsibilities of governance to a larger
population. Through reservation in Panchayat politics, every section was given the right to perform
representative roles. With the implementation of the Panchayati Raj system, the one-third
reservation given to women has not only increased their numerical share, but it is possible to say
that their political empowerment has also taken place by quoting various research reports. The
positive results of its success are that many states have made legal provisions to secure up to 50
percent seats for women in panchayat institutions, Madhya Pradesh being one of them…