India

This article examines the various approaches to understanding the relationship between women and poverty.

This research paper examines the theory of women’s empowerment, and explores the challenges faced by practitioners and policy makers in implementing this theory.

The paper attempts to situate the discussion of reservation (quotas) for women both in the wider historical and contemporary context of reservation for the historically disadvantaged groups in India.1 The paper also examines the contemporary experience of one-third reservation for women in the lo