Access to modern energy has been found to especially benefit rural women, in terms of reducing their drudgery and … offer medical services to the people. Though these facilities helped in enhancing the overall quality of life of women … also seen that the decisions regarding expenditure of income earned by women, were not taken by them independently. Further …

implications for women’s status within the family and in the society as women become less tied to concerns of the domestic domain …. Consequently, the process of the transition, presents an interesting reduction in gender differentiation (Davis, Van den Oever …, 1982) with women’s lives becoming more like those of men, rather than the reverse. This paper discusses the consequences …

This paper explores the linkages between dowry payments and educational attainment of women. It formulates an unitary … not affect educational attainment (ii) dowry favors educational attainment of women (iii) dowry hampers educational … attainment of women. Using a national level household survey from India, we test between these three hypotheses. It adopts an …

This paper examines the impact of educational and gender inequality in education on income inequality in South Asian … inequality. The results also indicate that gender inequality in education at primary and tertiary level has positive and … significant impact on income inequality but gender inequality at secondary level has negative and significant impact on income …