<p>The Women&rsquo;s Division, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, identified the need for providing training opportunities to the female project personnel, especially of managerial and mid-managerial ...

Discusses the factors contributing to the entry of young women into prostitution and related occupations, and the failure of the rehabilitation schemes, unless the government is prepared to provide adequate financial ...

<br>Growing world-wide recognition of the unequal participation of women in development culminated in the declaration of 1975 as International Women&rsquo;s Year and of the subsequent ten years as the United Nations Decade ...

<p>This paper was prepared by Truong Thanh-Dam of the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, Consultant, for the Workshop of Experts on Prevention and Rehabilitation Schemes for Young Women in Prostitution ...

In the considerable literature on women&rsquo;s economic status, few studies have been concerned with quantifiable hypotheses explaining the determinants of women&rsquo;s role in the economy. The present study attempts to ...

<p>This is a case study on organising of landless tribal women in Maharashtra, India, done for the Asian and Pacific Centre for Women and Development by Sujata Kanhere and Mira Savara. The study is valuable as an illustration ...

<p>In Asian countries it is often the women who determine the rate of acceptable social change in their own environment. It is they who through their role in brining up their children, or through their selection of status ...

<p>The World Plan of Action for the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Women&rsquo;s Year 1975 clearly diagnosed the problems concerning the participation of women in national politics as follows:&nbsp;<br ...

<p>Women&rsquo;s roles in different countries had been bound by a socio-political, economic and cultural set which was different from that of men and which tended to function in ways which restricted or discriminated against ...