Essays about: "the state of women in india"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 essays containing the words the state of women in india.
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1. Brides For Sale : A Qualitative Analysis of Missing Women, Skewed Sex Ratios and Bride Trafficking in Haryana, Northern India
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Population control programs such as family planning and the introduction of sex identification technologies has helped to create skewed sex ratios in northern India and particularly in the state of Haryana. Due to a surplus of men and the numbers of missing females, an organized business of bride trafficking has emerged where poor women from eastern and northeastern states of India are bought and brought to Haryana for the purpose of marriage. READ MORE
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2. Young women’s perceptions on safety in public spaces of Mumbai: negotiating the risk of sexual harassment and challenging patriarchy by transcending victimhood
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : This thesis draws on ten in-depth interviews in order to analyze young and educated, middle-class women’s perceptions on public safety in Mumbai, regarding the risk of sexual harassment. It focuses on the ways these women negotiate with risk and the patriarchal norms of women’s appropriate behavior in public spaces, further, examines how these women address their oppression and act in order to empower themselves and other women. READ MORE
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3. CAPABILITIES INSIDE FOUR WALLS : A qualitative field study on the capabilities and freedoms for women in a developing context challenging the approach of Amartya Sen
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : The ‘’capability approach’’, developed by the Indian economist Amartya Sen, has been widely used in the field of development and has contributed a perception of development that is different from the traditional understanding of it. Despite this, the theory has received a great amount of feminist critique and it has been concluded that the field lacks empirical data on how women in developing countries can be fully understood from the approach of Sen. READ MORE
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4. Voicing Women’s Rights: Being and Becoming a Women’s Rights Activist in Assam, India
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : This thesis is based on a minor field study (MFS) with the aim of investigating what habitus and forms of capital facilitate women’s rights activism in Assam, India – a state described as highly patriarchal but also a place where women enjoy higher status than elsewhere in the country. Using the concepts of capital and habitus and elements from social movement- and feminist theory, I analyze interviews with eight Assamese women’s rights activists. READ MORE
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5. Fertility and Sex Ratio in India: Empirical evidence of gender bias among children in India
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Research suggests that as a country develops and its economy grows, gender discrimination and the gap in the sex ratio is expected to decrease. However, in India, the sex ratio among children aged 0-6 has worsened from 945 girls per 1000 boys in 1991 to 914 girls per 1000 boys in 2011 despite huge strides in growth and development. READ MORE
