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Disparities in Social development and Status of women: An analysis of India and its States

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Author Affiliations

  • 1International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 3, Issue (7), Pages 13-22, July,14 (2014)

Abstract

The higher status of women has been widely acknowledged as an important tool in social and economic development of any society. A diverse body of literature has emerged regarding the measurement of women status and its relationship with variables of social and economic development. Thus, focus of the article is to examine the association between women’s status and social development in India. All three rounds of National Family Health Survey data were analyzed for 26 states of India and inter-state comparison is done in the context of changing status of women and social opportunities. To assess the women changing status, different indicators like female literacy rate (age 6+), median age at first marriage, women using modern contraceptive, not anemic, Institutional delivery, exposed to any source of media, current work status, involved in the decision Making to own Health and access of money are considered. However overall literacy rate, percent of urban population, under five mortality rate, percent of household with piped drinking water, household with any toilet facility and electricity facility, household with house type, full vaccination coverage, crude birth rate, crude death rate and total fertility rates have been considered for social indicator. To examine the changing status of women and social development we have created the two indices for each dimension named as Women Status index (WSI) and Social Development Index (SDI) using the Taxonomic approach. In the end, the nexus between social development and women status has been figured out with the help of correlation and regression analysis and upshots proves the intense association between the two dimensions.

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