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Development and the "doubly Disadvantaged"

其他書名	Gender Inequality in the Scheduled Castes and Tribes of India
出版	Michigan State University, 1991
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uni0AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The complex stratification systems in India give rise to a multiplicity of social categories which often obscure the segments of the population. This study examines the situation of women in scheduled castes and tribes -- groups referred to as "weaker sections of people" who are granted special safeguards and concessions under the Indian constitution. Women in these underprivileged groups are doubly disadvantaged by their minority group status and India's patriarchal culture which interact to produce deplorable living conditions. This study uses ethnographic and statistical sources to document the extreme degrees of gender inequality among the scheduled groups, and to show how women in these groups have far more limited access to both educational and employment resources relative to men. The research also suggests that socioeconomic development does not substantially reduce the problems of minority women and that minority men may disproportionately reap the fruits of development.