Subject(s): Women in development -- Social conditions -- Women's welfare -- rural development -- Female Literacy -- Women- equality, development and peace, women's welfare and development, women power- neglected factor in development, female literacy in India, literacy and status of women, women in rural development- Indian experience, Indian women scientists association, women's involvement in politics in India, why more women entering work force -- Women in trade union- study of AITUC, INTUC and CITU, formation of working class out of tribe- case of Yerukula women, nonformal education and women's development, relative male female contributions to house hold earnings, gender justice, role of women and children in informal sector- case study of working women's forum, changing status of rural women, poverty - family and economic conditions- study of domestic workers, entrepreneurship of women, women and Indian nationalism -- women empowerment