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The study highlights the policy for protecting and promoting the social and cultural rights of economically marginalized single women in India. It addresses issues relating to empowerment and the strengthening of single women in their quest for justice and dignity.

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Discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the vulnerable, especially women and girls across the country. The study looks at the evidence of discrimination, increased burden of care work and enhanced risk of physical and mental abuse of women and girls during these troubled times.

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The study highlights the adverse impact of COVID-19 on the well-being of children. The impact is felt most by children from marginalized and vulnerable sections of society who already face huge challenges in terms of income and food security. Their health is at risk, due to the near impossibility of practicing social distancing in the houses and localities they live in.

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The survey looks at the impact of COVID-19 on informal workers, both women and men. The study discusses the existing types of employment, patterns of migration, incomes and savings, housing, access to food, water, essential services and social security.

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The survey discusses the impact of the lockdown on women workers. It looks at the existing status of workers, especially women workers, with respect to the various types of employment, patterns of migration, incomes and savings, housing, access to food, water, essential services and social security. It also looks at worker’s access to relief measures, primary sources for receiving support and welfare entitlements since the lockdown.

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The study aims to assess and measure the status of public toilets for low-income young urban women in six cities. It discusses their needs, demands and expectations and assesses gender responsive policies and programmes regarding public toilets.

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Using short-term morbidity and body mass index (BMI) as indicators, this article examines the participation in workfare, a government scheme in which the unemployed have to work or learn new skills in order to receive welfare benefits and food grain subsidy programmes in India and social protection programme impacts on the health and nutritional status of women and children in participating households.

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The study looks at the Three Pillar Framework, initiated by the Ministry of Finance. It uses a gender lens to review the Framework in the Union Budget, 2020-2021. It also highlights the inaccuracies in reporting that only 5 per cent of India’s Total Budgetary Expenditure is spent on women and girls.

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The present study aims to explore the relationship between the educational status of women and autonomy in the household decision-making process. The study compares spousal attainments to ascertain the bargaining power of each and looks in particular at women’s autonomy in households where they are more educated than men.

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This article analyses the provisions of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 and highlights the discrimination against Hindu women through the prescription of different rules for the devolution of property held by men and women. The study provides a principles-based approach to comprehensively amend the Hindu Succession Act, to remove gender discrimination in the devolution of property.