Women And Child Welfare Programs (Theory)

Unit I:              

1. Social construction of Gender, Gender Socialization, Gender discrimination, gender stereotyping, Androgyny, Gender Role
2. Demographic indicators related to women-Sex Ratio, Literacy, Life Expectancy, Maternal Mortality Rate, Infant Mortality Rate, Work Participation Rate
3. Issues related to women in India (with special reference to Rajasthan) Female feticide, Female Infanticide, child marriage. Dowry, Widowhood, Female commercial sex workers, Domestic violence, problems of Elderly and single women

1. Legal rights of women
2. CEDAW, ERA-1976, MTP Act-1971, Maternity benefit Act-1961,
3. National Policy for women empowerment-2001, Domestic Violence Act-2005,  Dowry Prohibition Act-1961, Rajasthan state Policy for girl child, 2013
4. National and State Commission for Women. DWCD

a)      Issues of child labor, child marriage, juvenile delinquency and child abuse  in India and Rajasthan

b)      Children in Difficult Circumstances – Introduction, Demographic Statistics in India, Classification of Children in Difficult Circumstances – Child Labor, Destitute Children, Street Children, and Delinquent Children

c)      Child Labor and Destitute Children – Definition, Causative Factors, Health Status and Intervention Programmes for Child Labors

d)     Street Children - Definition, Causative Factors, Health Status, Life Style, Problems and Intervention Programmes for Street children

e)      Rights of children (UNCRC)

f)       Constitutional provisions for children

1. JJ Act 2000, The Child Labor Act-1986
2. POSCO Act 2012, Prohibition of child marriage act-2009
3. National policy for children-2013, Rajasthan child Policy 2008,
4.  National charter for Children 2003

Objectives, beneficiaries, coverage and funding of

1. UNICEF, WHO, CRY, FAO, CARE, World Bank
2. NIPCCD, ICDS, CSWB, NCERT