Transforming Unequal Gender Relations in India and Beyond

An Intersectional Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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This book offers a unique intersectional perspective on gender equality, SDG5. The chapters reinstate that gender equality is possible only if unequal gender norms are transformed to recognize women and girls as independent economic entities and not merely homemakers providing unpaid care.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-09-09
Mått178 x 254 x 29 mm
Vikt1 159 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSustainable Development Goals Series
Antal sidor404
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789819940851

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Saroj Pachauri, M.D., Ph.D., D.P.H., is a public health physician with extensive research on sexual and reproductive health and rights, HIV/AIDS, gender, poverty, and youth, was a regional director for South and East Asia, Population Council, has published 5 books, contributed chapters to 20 books, published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, was awarded Grants Gold Medal for securing first position in DPH, and was bestowed the prestigious title of Distinguished Scholar by the Population Council.Ravi Verma, Ph.D., is Regional Director, International Center for Research on Women. Dr. Verma taught for over two decades at a premier demographic institution, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, prior to joining International Center for Research on Women as a regional director, has published extensively on the intersectional nature of gender in reputed and high impact journals, served as a member, High-level Committee on the Status of Women, during 2013-16 and currently serves as a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on ‘Gender and Global Health’.

Chapter 1. SDG-5: How real? How sustainable? — Reviewing progress of an intersectoral framework.- Chapter 2. Respectful maternity care: A corner stone for improving maternal health.- Chapter 3. Self-care for achieving universal health coverage: Sexual and reproductive health and rights.- Chapter 4. Viewing women and HIV through a gender lens – A glimpse into the South and South East Asia Region.-Chapter 5. Gender equality stalled: Re-thinking how will we achieve SDG 5 in light of Covid 19 and other challenges.- Chapter 6. Women and COVID-19: Deepening the gendered fault lines in India's labor markets.- Chapter 7. Children’s experiences of sexual violence in Nairobi, Kenya.- Chapter 8. Casting gender in violence against Dalit women: Perpetrators’ impunity and constitutional responsibility of State.- Chapter 9. Ladka Ladki Ek Barabar? Gender ideology among young adolescents through adulthood in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.- Chapter 10. Gender, adolescents and SDGs in India: Evidence from UDAYA longitudinal survey.- Chapter 11. Cost of ignoring gender.- Chapter 12. Developing India has an underbelly: The tale of missing daughters.- Chapter 13. Gender equality in India - A distant dream?.