Women and Property in Urban India

Women and Property in Urban India
Author :
Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 261
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780774819305
ISBN-13 : 0774819308
Rating : 4/5 (308 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Women and Property in Urban India by : Bipasha Baruah

Download or read book Women and Property in Urban India written by Bipasha Baruah and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-11-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half the world's population now lives in cities. Governments and international development agencies have made housing the urban poor a priority, but few focus on women's needs. Based on research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), this book maps the constraints and opportunities that low-income women throughout the Global South face in securing property, which remains overwhelmingly in male hands. Their experiences and vulnerabilities open a window to assess not only land tenure and property laws but also potential solutions such as microcredit financing and diverse theoretical approaches to gender and development.


Women and Property in Urban India Related Books

Women and Property in Urban India
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Bipasha Baruah
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-07 - Publisher: UBC Press

GET EBOOK

Half the world's population now lives in cities. Governments and international development agencies have made housing the urban poor a priority, but few focus o
Women, Power, and Property
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Rachel E. Brulé
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Wo
Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Reena Patel
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-06 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five
Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Irudaya Rajan
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Anthem Press

GET EBOOK

'Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged' provides a detailed comparative study of social and economic issues facing the elderly in India, Sri Lanka and
A Field of One's Own
Language: en
Pages: 600
Authors: Bina Agarwal
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

An analysis of gender and property throughout South Asia which argues that the most important economic factor affecting women is the gender gap in command over