Gender Caste And Class In India

On understanding of gender relations in a specific context. Ex-amining gender relations as power relations makes clear that these are sustained by the institutions within which gender relations occur. For women absence of power results in the lack of access to and control over resources, a coercive gender division of labour, devaluation of their work, and a lack of control over their owne labour mobility as well as sexuality and fertility. Gender equality thus demands substantive transformation, a set of policies and conditions created by the state that facilitate the reallocation of resources, thereby increasing women`s control over resources that confer power at individual household, and societal levels.