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Contents: Introduction. 1. Through the Life-Cycle of Children: Factors that Facilitate/Impede Successful Primary School Completion/Vimala Ramachandran, Kameshwari Jandhyala and Aarti Saihjee. 2. Private Schools for the Less Privileged: Some Insights from a Case Study/Anuradha De, Claire Noronha and Meera Samson. 3. Education and Girlhood/Krishna Kumar. 4. Is Equality an Outdated Concern in Education?/Sadhna Saxena. 5. The New Segregation: Reflections on Gender and Equity in Primary Education/Vimala Ramachandran and Aarti Saihjee. 6. Gendered Inequality in Educational Transitions/Divya Vaid. 7. Gender Differentials in Education: Exploring the Capabilities Approach/Jeemol Unni. 8. Contemporary Challenges to Women’s Education: Towards an Elusive Goal?/Nandini Manjrekar. 9. Why Women Teachers Matter in Secondary Education/Kameshwari Jandhyala and Vimala Ramachandran. 10. ‘Sisters under the Skin’: Events of 2002 and Girls’ Education in Ahmedabad/Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan and Nina Haeems. 11. Gender Gap in Literacy in Uttar Pradesh: Questions for Decentralised Educational Planning/Lori McDougall. 12. Community Caretaking and Women Volunteer Teachers in Mumbai Slums/Anju Saigal. 13. Inequality, Gender and Socio-religious Groups/Balwant Singh Mehta and Megha Shree. 14. Globalisation, Higher Education and Gender: Changing Subject Choices of Indian Women Students/Karuna Chanana. 15. Do Parents Spread Educational Expenditure Evenly across the Two Genders?: Evidence from Two North Indian States