Preface vii 1. Introduction and Overview 1 Himanshu Sekhar Rout and Prasant Kumar Panda 2. Gender and Health: A Conceptual Note 25 Manisha Chawla and Himanshu Sekhar Rout 3. Agro-based Enterprises and Women in Punjab 38 Sanjay Kumar, Jasdev Singh and G.S. Gill 4. Land Rights and Sustainable Livelihood for Women 63 K.N. Bhatt 5. Gender and Agricultural Work in Tamil Nadu 77 C. Muthuraja 6. Gender Bias in Agricultural Employment: Evidence from Rural Orissa 99 Atulya Bhoi, Yoginder Singh and Prasant Kumar Panda 7. Self-employment and Sustainable Development through Self-help Groups (SHGs) Dolly Sunny 112 8. Gender and Development: Role of Self-help Groups (SHGs) 123 H.H. Uliveppaand M.N. Siddalingappanavar 9. Empowerment of Women through Self-help Groups (SHGs): A Case Study 138 K. Pazhani 10. Gender Budget Initiatives in India 158 Sarit Kumar Rout 11. Air Pollution and Health of Women: A Case Study168 Mrutyunjaya Mishra and Nirmal Chandra Sahu 12. Women and UN Millennium Development Goals 179 G. Ramachandrudu, P. Subba Rao and A. Rajani 13. Gender Inequality in Education and Socio-economic Development: An Empirical Analysis 194 K.B. Rangappa, V. Murugaiah and B.P. Veerabhadrappa 14. Violence against Women in India: A Case Study 205 A. VinayakReddy 15. Females Enrolment and Employment in Schools in Andhra Pradesh 219 D. Pulla Rao 16. Awareness: Key to Gender Development 230 A.K. Jain and Shalini Tiwari 17. Gender and Development; Role of NGOs 244 Pallavi S. Kusugal and H.H. Uliveppa Index257