Amplifying Indian Women’s Voices and Experiences to Advance Their Access to Technical and Vocational Education Training

Abstract

This chapter questions gender biases that are entrenched in culture and traditions. It shows the gap between educational policy and practice. The practice here is women’s participation in non-formal and Vocational Education and Training programs. The chapter urges policy makers to bring reforms in the vocational track of the education system, by incorporating the reality that many women face. Through Participation Action Research method, Iyengar and Witenstein try to illicit the cultural, religious, intergenerational practices that tend to thwart basic human rights for women in India.

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Radhika Iyengar and Matthew A. Witenstein
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         
  
          
  
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
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   
         
         
  

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 Mahashakti Seva Kendra
          
        
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



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Shikshan Sansthan  
  
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
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 Purpose and Research Questions

           
            
 
    
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           
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 
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
    
         
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    
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    
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     
        
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       
    

         
    



       





        






       
  



    
   


          


       
       
    
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      
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           
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

ethno-, media-, techno-, finance-, and ideo
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



 


    
          
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 Research Design

   
           
    

     
         

            
          
    
       
   



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  
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 Procedures
          
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 Household Work Defined by Gender
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  
 


           





           


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 Younger Women Question More
 
          

            

   
 
  

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 

 
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 Patriarchy Still Exists
          



  

 

   

            

 

 Visible Intergenerational Differences


           


 
      
 




 
  
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 Community Forms Norms
 

 
   
 


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           
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          
          
           
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         
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          

           
          



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
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 

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 
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           

   

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 

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Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 14
   Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalization
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The art of effec-
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   
International Message of Applied Research, 1
Textual Practice,12
        Action and knowledge: Breaking the
monopoly with participatory action research
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system in India
for sustainable development.

   
Convergence, 14
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and skills
development for poverty reduction – Do rural women benefit?


GSTF Journal on Business Review, 4

International Journal of Applied Research,1

Journal of World History, 11
   
Participatory action
research and educational development
National skills development strategies and the urban informal sec-
tor: The case of India


Berkeley Review of Educa-
tion, 5
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