GENDER, POWER AND EXCLUSION: A Relook into Women's Empowerment

Gender inequality is pervasive worldwide and remains entrenched at various levels  from intimate private realm to the highest level of public arena. Although, past decades have seen change and progress, the change has been uneven, incremental and hugely inadequate. Underneath questions of persistent inequality, subordination and exclusion of women, is the question of power and the dynamics of power imbalances disfavouring women. It is the question of power, coupled with ideology and its modus operandi in multiple forms of patriarchy. At this significant juncture in history, when we are looking forward to the ‘2030 agenda’ visualizing the final blow to gender inequality globally, it is an opportune time to have a relook at the issues involved and measures undertaken, including achievements and failures, challenges and possibilities. In a contextualized frame, the present book attempts a nuanced understanding of the issues involved.
Delineating conceptual/theoretical dimensions of exclusion of women from power, entitlements and justice, the book explores the multiple facets of gender inequality vis-á-vis the state and its institutions, the vulnerability of women, dilemmas of identity, rootlessness and disempowerment and also the interlinkages between the local and the global, including pro-active role of the UN.
The book will be a valuable resource for researchers, teachers, students, civil society activists and gender policy planners.