Elite Women of India
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Padmalaya Mohapatra Bijoyini Mohanty
2002, APH Publishing Corporation, Ansari Road, Daryaganja, New Delhi
ISBN 81-7648-339-7
Gender equity and empowerment of women have been the main issues over last 3 to 4 decades of last millennium throughout the globe. Easy methods are not available to calculate the speedy development of women due to long standing social aberrations. The women elite composed of the active and influential women of different fields definitely form a separate group, who can find ways of imparting welfare measures of women in particular.
An elite individual, often ascribed as a personality trait, is a point of attraction of sociologists and political scientist. …..Elite is the creative and energetic forces of the society. As the prime movers in a society, the elite decides the fate of a society; decides the fate of the community to great extent. The elite of the developing society assumes greater significance that that of the developed society. This treatise deals with at length women elite of India. It has categorized them into political, bureaucratic and managerial elite. It describes a field study of women. There is projection of a specific socioeconomic profile.Their attitude on different issues of women have been dealt at length.