4TH World Conference on Women Beijing, 1995: Country Paper India - India Department Of Women and Child Development Government of India 1994 - 78p.

1. Introduction
2. Overview of the status of women in India
3. Indias response to the forward looking strategies adopted at Nairobi conference
4. National machinery for women development
5. An Alternative evaluation framework for women's empowerment
6. Gender issue in development
a. Women in extreme poverty
b. new economic policies and their impact om the status of women
c. Environment
d. Health
e. Education
7. a. Women in dicission making process
b. Constitutional and legal rights guaranteed to women
c. Societal reorientation, gender sensitisation and advocacy
d. Perspective of the girl-child and adolescent gilrs
8. Countering the threat to violence against women
9. Concluding comments


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