India Social Development Report 2022

Indira Hirway, Professor of Economics, Centre For Development Alternatives

Indira Hirway is the Director and Professor of Economics, Centre for Development Alternatives, and Associate of Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York. Major areas of her research interest are development alternatives, employment and labour market structures, poverty and human development, gender and development, environment and development, and time use studies.

1. Introduction, Indira Hirway
Section One: The Major Impeding Structure
2. Transforming Impeding Structures for Gender Equality: Exploring Pathways, Indira Hirway
3. Revisiting the Feminist Project of Gendering Development: Why Framing of Questions Becomes Important?, Padmini Swaminathan
4. Social Norms and Attitudes Towards Women's Entitlement to Land, Govind Kelkar and Pallavi Govindnathan
5. Policy Framework for Women's Economic Empowerment: What is a Miss?, Sona Mitra
Section Two: Patriarchy and Unpaid Work
6. Care Economy in India, N Neetha
7. Women in the Labour Market: Structural Constraints and Solutions Towards Gender Equality and Empowerment, Deepta Chopra
8. Gender Inequality and Intra Household Consumption Disparities, Anuradha Seth
9. Recognition, Reduction and Redistribution of Unpaid Work in India, Indira Hirway and Anindita Ghosh
Section Three: Case Studies: Patriarchy in the Selected Sectors
10. Seasonal Agricultural Work, Gendered Time Use, and Its Implications for Nutrition, Nitya Rao
11. Gender Inequalities in Health and Care, Asha Kapur Mehta and Samik Chouwdhury
12. Barriers and Pathways to Girl's Education, Geeta Menon and Aparajita Sharma
13. Macroeconomic Policies and Unpaid Work: Trade-liberalization Policy and Home-based Workers, Indira Hirway
Section Four: Social Norms and Violence Against Women
14. Macro Roots of Violence Against Women: Rape Victim's Struggle for Justice, Jharna Pathak and Rahul Sharma
15. Socio-Economic Correlates of Domestic Violence: A Hidden Crisis of COVID-19 Pandemic, Jharna Pathak and Neha Shah
Section Five: Social Mobilization for Empowerment
16. Gradual Revolution: SEWA, An Example of the Women's Movement, Renana Jhabvala and Nitya Nangalia
17. Expanding Statistical Paradigm Mainstreaming Time Use Surveys in the India Statistical System, Indira Hirway
18. Social Development Index 2022, Surajit Deb