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What is Grama Panchayat

Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment
Grama Panchayats are village councils in India formed as a part of decentralization of power to the grass root level to empower the people of India to select their local administration.
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Cartography of Gender Mainstreaming in Women-Exclusive Colleges: A Post-Human Perspective
Esther Mani (Little Flower College, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2819-8.ch005
Abstract
Modern society built on the foundation of humanism improvised by thinkers, philosophers, and revolutionaries lacks the punch of a gender-sensitized community. The aggrandizement of knowledge and power led to fissures in the global context, paving the way to post-colonization and post-modernity that embraced plurality displacing totalitarianism in all aspects of human endeavors. Human centrality to cosmos has long been abandoned, but where do we stand in relational terms in gender sensitivity? Has technology shrunk our personal space and humanism to a palm length, despite making the world accessible at our fingertips? Are gender fixating roles of the society/community sustained vigorously and endorsed with subtlety? This chapter intends to reassess and reevaluate the relevance of exclusive women education portals of Kerala. A survey in a few well-established women-exclusive arts and science colleges shows some new perspectives on the relevance of their existence in the changing environment of human development indices.
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