21 research outputs found
Does mother’s education matter in child’s health? Evidence from South Africa
No full textThis paper studies the effect that mother's education as knowledge has on child health using height for age as health measure. Using cross sectional data from de 1993 South Africa Integrated Household Survey, and health measures form de National Center for Health Statistics, we find a significant and positive effect of mother's education on the height of a child. Specifically comparing a woman without any education with one with eight years of schooling implies that on average a two-year old child would be a half centimeter higher. In order to isolate de knowledge effect of mother’s education, we control for household and community resources. Additionally, we test for a differential impact of mother’s education depending on the age of the child. We observe a more important impact on children between 3 and 6 years old. Finally, our results suggest a complementarity between mother’s and father’s education.Economic development, health production, returns to schooling
Globalisation and women in India
No full textDescribing the way globalisation has affected India over the last decade, the author considers the impact of these changes on women, in the main areas of `development' due to globalisation: commercialisation, capitalisation, foreign trade orientation, and financialisation and industrial restructuring. She develops the point that the `skewed income and wealth' structure in India, and the gender discrimination suffered by women, has not altered in the face of the changes brought by globalisation: women continue to lose out, and are losing out more severely than before.This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p
The First Women’s Studies Research Centre: A History of Women’s Studies and Its Progenitors
No full text The beginning of Women’s Studies has a special history in India. It owes its origin not only to some stalwarts but also to the historical times in which its birth took place. Its location in the SNDT Women’s University in Mumbai was at the initiative of Dr Neera Desai, a Professor of Sociology at that university. Her own work on women’s issues in her Master’s thesis and her involvement in the women’s movement gave her the background for envisaging that a women’s university should engage with analysis of women’s condition and not just teach women other academic disciplines. It was with this motive, that the Research Centre for Women’s Studies was set up in 1974, a year before the publication of the report Towards Equality of the Government of India. The university - originally begun at the initiative of the educationist Shri Dhondo Kheshav Karve received a handsome grant from the industrialist Shri Damodar Thackersey and got named after his mother Shrimathi Nathibai Damodar Thackersey hereafter SNDT Women’s University. The Centre with the involvement of able and farsighted administrators at this university spearheaded the development of this Centre, which became the torch bearer for raising women’s issues. </jats:p
Motherhood, Mothers, Mothering: A Multidimensional Perspective
No full textThe question of matriarchate as female dominance, remains unresolved. While non materialist anthropologists dismissed it outright, socialist scholars accepted it as a stage in social evolution. If matrifocal clans or collective mothering oncet provided power and assistance for raising a human infant, can one recreate it? How does one reclaim the awesome power of procreation invested in women? The feminist dilemma is how to retrieve motherhood as a source of liberation, not by eliminating it as an obstacle but by redefining appropriate terms and conditions and a social structure that can make motherhood a conceivably creative experience, merging as it does the boundaries between child and mother, mediating as it can between nature and history, between the universal and the particular. [Text of the Navdurga Memorial Lecture. Asiatic Society. February 8, 2006.]motherhood, matriarchate, dominance, matrifocal, mothering oncet, reproduction, women's Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Sociology
Women’s Perspectives on Public Policy in India: A Half-Century of Incomplete or Lost Agenda?
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Gender Critiques of Budgets: How Useful?
No full textWhile critical perspectives on the budget are certainly necessary and are useful, they are not sufficient to produce the change necessary. For that we need to encourage civil society initiatives on ensuring that budgeted allocations are indeed spent appropriately.gender budgeting, budget allocations, state budgets, Economics, Sociology, Gender Studies
