India

 SEWA helps working women gain confidence

THE GROWTH of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is an inspiring story of an unique organisation combining within its ambit labour unions, workers' cooperatives, and a bank. Its

Publication Date: 
14/03/1993
Deepti Priya
Down to Earth
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Rag Pickers, Workers, Women, India
India

 Peasant women list their woes to scientists

At a recent conference, women farm workers got a chance to discuss their problems with agricultural experts.

Publication Date: 
14/03/1993
Pamela Philipose
Down to Earth
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Rural Habitat, Agricultural Labourers, Women, Scientists, India
India

 Women engineers come to the forefront

DESPITE sex-role conditioning by teachers and traditional attitudes that rule out floor and site jobs for women, the number of Indian women taking to engineering has increased manifold in the period

Publication Date: 
Saturday, January 30, 1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Scientists, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Statistics, Electronics
India

 Scarred by violence and fundamentalism

1992 proved the Indian women's movement needs to reassess its priorities and strategies.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
Kumud Sharma
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Women, Contraception, Human Rights, Popular Movements, India
India

 A bitter prelude to salvation

Moksha makes a stunning statement on the indignity of being an Indian widow.

Publication Date: 
30/01/1993
Sevanti Ninan
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Rural Habitat, Women, Video, India
India

 Do men fall ill more often than women?

THE FIRST all-India household survey of medical care shows some interesting results. The survey, which was conducted in 1990 in 21 states and Union territories and covered 18,000 households, found

Publication Date: 
Thursday, January 14, 1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Traditional Knowledge, Health Care, India, Statistics
Forests

Chipko

This book is about a people's movement to save their forests and trees. Chipko movement started in 1970s in the Chamoli district of Uttar Pradesh and saw active participation of women in the forefront.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1992
Priti Jain, Feisal Alkazi, Martha Farrell & et al
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Trees, Chipko Movement, Women, Uttar Pradesh, Chamoli
Water Resources

The raindrop

"The Raindrop" is about a village near Chandigarh in Haryana. The book tells the story how this village was able to transform itself from a drought prone one to a food exporting one through community efforts and scientific watershed management.

Publication Date: 
Dec 1992
Priti Jain, Feisal Alkazi, Martha Farrell & et al
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Watershed Development, Drought, Women, Environment Education, Chandigarh, Haryana
India

 Behavioural changes is the way to curb AIDS

Doctors and social workers advocate awareness as the best way to prevent AIDS, a disease that has no vaccine or cure, from spreading.

Publication Date: 
14/12/1992
Fauziah Varusay
Down to Earth
Tags:
Women, Children, Health Care, AIDS, WHO, Developing Countries
India

 I hate scavenging, but what else can I do?

Rameshwari has been working as a scavenger in the pilgrim town of Ajmer in Rajasthan for the last 15 years. She abhors her work, yet she does it as it is her only source of livelihood.

Publication Date: 
29/11/1992
Amit Mitra
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Scavengers, Women, India, Rajasthan

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