TRIBAL WOMEN IN CHIPKO MOVEMENT -AN APPRAISAL DEBASREE DE UGC Junior Research Fellow at Department of History‚ Jadavpur University‚ Kolkata. The women of Chipko movement have added to the world’s consciousness of environmental issues significantly by their slogan of ‘mitti pani aur bayar’. Major afforestation programmes have also been launched as a result of the movement. To celebrate the Chipko week (30th May to5th June) let us spread the message of Chipko to protect our natural resources
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In fact‚ outrage about the mistreatment and abuse Indian women suffer on a daily basis has been building over the last two decades. The rape in December may have drawn great public anguish because it came to symbolize the collected grievances of hundreds of millions of women. Devesh Kapur‚ who leads the Center for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania‚ argues that gender violence is coming to the fore as a public issue partly because India is now less divided by other big fault
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I begin to feel I have no personality. I’m a server of food and a bedmaker‚ somebody who can be called on when you want something. But who am I?" This is the thoughts of women in the 1960s‚ specifically Stephanie Coontz‚ a woman who just wants equal rights as her son. With the Civil Rights Movement going on‚ this sparked the imagination of hundreds of women across America that they should have equal rights. The actions of the feminist movement during the Civil Rights Movement created gender equality
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the agricultural period came to be‚ hunters and gatherers were still around and are still around even today. The transition and evidence from the transition was not inconclusive and had a clear negative impact on women. Women go through the transition from being equals with men and aiding in the hunting and gathering era to becoming mainly useful for childbirth to have more men brought into the world for farming and agriculture. Women were even discredited for discovering any farming techniques and
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our society that role of women is restricted in four walls of home or for mainly household activities. Economy of any country can’t boom without contributing women. The growing industrialization‚ urbanization and social legislation and with the spread of education and awareness women have shifted from kitchen to higher level of professional activities. Today’s women are taking more and more professional and technical degrees to cope up with market need.The position of women and their position is any
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Violence against women is an everyday reality act now‚always and forever before its too late. I was told Indian women don ’t think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don ’t think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that." -- Amartya Sen …gender equality is critical to the development and peace of every nation." -- Kofi Annan "…there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women." -- Kofi Annan "women themselves
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WOMEN BOOKS: 1. “Gender equality and women empowerment in Pakistan” Rashida Patel • Analysis of the situation of women in Pakistan • Continuous and increasing misinterpretation of Islam 2. “Women in Pakistan” Heinz Gunther Klien • Obstacles and opportunities for development of women in Pakistan • Focuses on vocational development and cottage industry 3. “My Feudal Lord” Tehmina Durrani • Story of domestic violence in Pakistan QUOTATIONS: 1) “Never underestimate a man’s ability to
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Status of Women in India: Problems and Concerns Internship Project (December 2010 - January 2011) Supported by Heinrich Boll Foundation‚ Germany CENTRE FOR STUDY OF SOCIETY AND SECULARISM 602 & 603‚ New Silver Star‚ 6th Floor‚ Behind BEST Bus Depot‚ Santacruz (E)‚ Mumbai: - 400 055. Ph. 022-26149668‚ 26102089 Fax 022-26100712 E-mail: csss@mtnl.net.in Website: www.csss-isla.com pg. 1 1. INTRODUCTION Keeping in view the nature of activities undertaken by the CSSS‚ certain NGOs and educational
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Equality Issues for Women in Guatemala A closer look at political and economic inequality 2012 Adam L. Marré Drew University 10/30/2012 Contents Introduction 3 Guatemala Background 3 Political Inequality 5 Political Participation 6 United Nations Suggestions 7 Employment Inequality 7 Women’s Labor Participation 8 Business and Women 9 Unpaid Housework and Childcare 10 Time Burden 11 Conclusion 12 Bibliography 13 Introduction Discrimination‚ a lack of
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Women in theatre in the past have tried to become center-stage rather than a prop and now in the present they are more than a spotlight. The changes from 1970’s to 1980’s gave women a feminist thought to a political one‚ which encountered different types of development of their role and expressed numerous obstacles they faced as a whole. In the article Cunning Stunts shows the drastic change in women theatre form 70’s to 80’s. The article Constructing Experience expresses attitude towards feminism
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