Foreword - Vina Mazumdar
Introduction
A. SECTORAL ESSAYS: Demography - Nirmala Banerjee and Mukul
Mukherjee
Health and Nutrition - Maitreya Ghatak
Education - Jasodhara Bagchi and Jaba Guha
Economic Empowerment - Ishita Mukhopadhyay
Political Participation - Vidya Munshi
Culture - Malini Bhattacharya
Law and Violence against Women - Manjari Gupta and Ratnabali
Chattopadhyay
Tribal Women - Anuradha Chanda
B. APPENDICES: MICRO STUDIES AND STATISTICS: Appendix A: Tables on
Demography
Appendix B: Tables on Health and Nutrition
Appendix C: Education: C1: Micro Study on Participation of SC/ST
Girls in Professional (Teachers′ Training) Education - Kamal Kumar
Chattopadhyay and Dipali Nag
C2: Education of Muslim Women in West Bengal - Ratnabali
Chattopadhyay
Appendix D: Status of Women with Respect to Work: Report of Primary
Surveys in Bankura and Hoogli - Ishita Mukhopadhyay
Appendix E: Political Participation: E1: List of Women Lok Sabha
MPs from West Bengal (1952-2000)
E2: List of Women Rajya Sabha MPs from West Bengal
E3: List of Women MLAs in West Bengal (1952-2000)
Appendix F: A Micro Survey of the Status of Women Rural Artists of
West Bengal - Malini Bhattacharya
Appendix G: A Report on Findings from a Study of Women′s Status in
Birbhum District of West Bengal - Atis Dasgupta and Suraj
Bandyopadhyay
Policy Recommendations
Select Bibliography
Index
Jasodhara Bagchi was an independent scholar, formerly Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for Women and Director, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University; also Professor of English, Jadavpur University; considered to be a pioneering scholar of women’s studies. Among her books with Stree: Loved and Unloved: The Girl Child in the Family (1997); with Subhoranjan Dasgupta, The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in the Easter Region, 2 vols (2006, 2009); Karmakshetre Jouno Henasthar Mokabilye Ain Byabohaer Nirdeshika (How to handle sexual harassment in the workplace); with SAGE: Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970–2000: The Challenges Ahead, 2005.
This edited volume is a timely assessment of the politics
implemented in the wake of the `Report of the Committee on the
Status of Women in India` released in 1974,which asserted the need
for action so that the constitutional promise of equality for men
and women in India could be realised.
*Contemporary South Asia*
The product of painstaking research by a team of eminent academics,
the book is a study of the way women`s lives evolved, delving into
virtually every sphere of human activity imaginable—from economic
empowerment to health to legal issues.
*The Telegraph*
[This] work is a unique study of three decades that have witnessed
by far the most apparent changes in the visibility, status and
social relevance of women in the country, and this book promises to
be an important reference point. The result of several years of
compilation and analysis, the study looks at several parameters
that may assess status: demography, health and nutrition,
education, economic, political and cultural participation, violence
against women and the safeguards in the eyes of law, and finally,
the lives of tribal women. It is replete with tables and one cannot
help but be impressed with the compilation…. Perhaps one of the
most significant chapters here would be the one on policy
recommendations…. This book takes an honest look at the scope for
improvement with objective pointers through the chapters…. These
pointers…are heartening indicators of an earnest and dispassionate
effort.
*The Hindustan Times*
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