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Dimensions of Gender Problems: Policies and Prospects" is the outcome of the papers contributed by eminent scholars in the field social science. There are 14 selected papers relating to the various issues on gender problem. Women are constantly living under pressure of the incidents like distorted personality development due to discrimination, threat of or actual occurrences of deception, rape, kidnapping, dowry tortures, murder, etc. The contributors of this volume drawn from different faculties have presented their well considered judicious views in rare style on various issues pertaining to development of society. The study is of paramount importance in understanding and formulating policy relating to various dimensions related to gender problems. It is hoped that researchers of social science, women studies, developmental studies, population studies and general readers interested in the problem would appreciate the work.

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Gender issues on socio-economic development/Deepak Bishoyi. 2. Gender and economic development/Avinandan Taron. 3. Gender and development: the ways ahead?/Sancheeta Ghosh. 4. Gender issues in development: a critical approach/Sailaja Nandini. 5. Methodological issues in Gender Budgeting Initiative (GBI) in India/Bibhu Prasad Sahu. 6. Action for gender equality and women empowerment by UNIFEM: with special reference to India/Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati and Dillip Kumar Mishra. 7. Violence against the women and gender justice/Deepak Bishoyi. 8. Gender dimension of internal migration: a study of major States in India/Ananta Basudev Sahu. 9. Gender inequality in the length of life in major States of India/Sangram Kishor Patel and L. Ladusingh. 10. Gender critique of political change in India/Sailaja Nandini. 11. Role of women on the political life of Orissa/Santosh Kumar Sahu. 12. Some instances of gender disparity in Orissa/Akshaya Kumar Panigrahi. 13. The status of women in Orissa/Santosh Kumar Sahu. 14. The way they are: exploring the sexual behaviour of urban youth in Puri, Orissa/Manas Ranjan Pradhan and Usha Ram. Index.