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082 _a342.0878 PAL
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100 _aPal Manoranjan
245 _aGender and discrimination : Health, nutritional status and role of women in India
260 _aNew Delhi
_bOxford University Press
_c2011
300 _a323
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365 _b Rs. 375
505 _aContents List of Tables, Figures, and Maps; Foreword by Anushree Sinha; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. (En)gendering Poverty Policy in India Bina Fernandez; 2. Women and Agriculture in India: Work and Wages Madhura Swaminathan; 3. Gender, Religion, and the Age at Marriage in India Sriya lyer; 4. Invisibility and Ordeal of Women Workers in India AmalMandal; 5. Will Increasing Women's Power Reduce Discrimination against Girl Children in South Asia? Lisa C. Smith and Elizabeth M. Byron; 6. Maternal Literacy and Child Malnutrition in India Vani K. Borooah; 7. Gender, Poverty, and HIVTransmission in India Koumari Mitra; 8. Gender Differences in Early Childhood Feeding Practice Rural West Bengal Aparna Pandey; 9. Health and Nutritional Status of School Age Children: Some Gender and Age Differentials Tara Gopaldas; 10. Gender Bias and Family Planning Programme in India Amitabh Tewari and Suruchi Tewari; 11. Heart Disease among South Asians: Role of Gender Sumita Das Sarkar and Ahana Sarkar; 12. On Some Measures of Gender Discrimination Manoranjan Pal and Premananda Bharati; 13. Gender Dimorphism: Discrimination in Rural India, 1930-1975 Aravinda Meera Guntupalli and Alexander Moradi; 14. A New Measure of Gender Bias Diganta Mukherjee; 15. Gender Bias inMortality?: An Update on Missing Women' Stephan Klasen and Claudia Wink; Contributors
650 _a1.Sex Discrimination Against Women - Law & Legislation2. Women's Rights
700 _aBharati Premananda
_aGhosh Bholanath
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