State's Stepping Out of the Dominant Values in Women Empowerment Policy: The Experience of Andhra Pradesh, India.
This article explores why the state of Andhra Pradesh is disregarding the dominant values of Indian society to formulate women-oriented policies. It concludes that the Andhra Pradesh experience of women-oriented policies provides ample evidence that the social action taken by women themselves is pla...
| Published in: | Social Development Issues (Follmer Group) Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 55 - 68 |
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2015
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