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Women's empowerment and social change : (Record no. 37242)

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fixed length control field	03892nam a2200181Ia 4500
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title	English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	RS.0937
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name	Srivastava, Amita
Affiliation	Jagatpur P. G. College
Place	Varanasi
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Women's empowerment and social change :
Sub Title	a study of women of Varanasi /
Statement of responsibility, etc	Amita Srivastava
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication	New Delhi :
Name of publisher/Sponsor	ICSSR,
Year of publication	2007
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	291p. ;
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc	Include bibliographical references.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	The world wake up, to the challenge at a time where women's movement across the globe rose to strong the and many women's groups fixed their muscles to tight out injustices, stop oppression, wipe out discrimination and the removal of barriers to gender equality. Things started changing steadily and progress become visible on many fronts, almost every where. Realising the slow pace of progress, the Limited Nations-the world body of most nations intervened to create a climate conducive to gender quality and facilitation of women's empowerment. The movement of general equality and women's empowerment has become of the defining evelopments of contemporary time. In Rio (1992), the world leaders ccepted women's vital role in achieves sustainable development. n Vienna, the governments acknowledged that woman have human ghts and took note of the widespread violence against women. In iro, women's empowerment was recognized as a corner stone of effectivepopulation policies and will copenhagen gender equality was recognized as a preconditions for the achievement of productive employment, social integration and paver eradication. <br/>Hypothesis of the study are as follows : (0 With the rise of and economic status .. _,rnen's own identity consciousness increases. (ii) Women's exposure to media enable them to understand women issue and respond to them in the appropriate manner. (iii) Membership of women's organization make women power conscious. (iv) With the rise of economic participation of women, the sense of power sharing with men also goes up. (v) Self-sufficiency and the issues of women empowerment are closely related. <br/>The study revealed that International Action agenda calls for the removal of the following : (a) Unreasing burden of poverty on women (b) In equalities and in acquiesces in the unequal to educations training health care and other development related programmes and services. (c) Varied manifestation of violence against women. (d) In equality in economic and political structure and in all form of self filling measures necessary for their advancement and locked repeat for their human rights. 24.37 percent Tho study revealed lint will' rifJ1 of r;o0;11 anri eGonoroir; status wog non's own identity, cot itiGioinsner,o inGrowiou, 46:15 Pc: tent of the respondents supported Ihn r;111ornorit, 'A WI ri(,,r(mnt did nof support the statement. The respondents wee asked how to rise of social and economic status women's own identity if concii, rir;`,1, increases they have identified three aspect in this regard ;,1 /Thr(;r in the society (13.85%), social responsibility (16,94%), participate on in decision making (14.95%). <br/><br/>The study revealed about women's exposure to media according to level of education in the sample the respondents asked the question : do you agree that women's exposure to media enable them to understand women issue and response to them in the appropriate manner 50.96 percent of the respondents given affirmative answer and 49.03 percent of the respondents did give positive answer in this regard. 56.96 percent of the respondents suggested following steps which are involved (i) awareness about different area (16.06%). (ii) Women fight according to their capactiy (18.28%). (Hi) Less expertation against women (16.62) .
536 ## - FUNDING INFORMATION NOTE
Funding Agency	Indian Council of Social Science Research.
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note	English
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Women-Empowerment
Form subdivision	Social aspects
General subdivision	Social aspects
Geographic subdivision	Varanasi,India
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type	Research Reports
Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification

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Withdrawn status	Lost status	Damaged status	Not for loan	Collection code	Home library	Current library	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Total Checkouts	Full call number	Accession Number	Date last seen	Koha item type
			Not For Loan	ICSSR Fellowships	NASSDOC Library	NASSDOC Library	11/10/2022	Research Fellowship Division		RS.0937	52445	11/10/2022	Research Reports