Subject(s): Democracy and Rationality -- Human Capabilities -- Gender Inequality -- Women's equality : Matter of survival- women's right to employment in India and Bangladesh -- Human capabilities, female human beings, research program of development ethics, justice, capabilities and vulnerabilities, functioning and capability foundations of sen's and Nussbaum's development ethics, pragmatism and moral objectivity, democracy and rationality- dialogue with Hilary Putnam, cultural complexity, moral interdependence and global dialogical community -- Justice, law and reason : Gender inequality and theories of justice, inequalities between the sexes in different cultural contexts, why not feminist theory of justice, gender, caste and law, emotions and women's capabilities, commentator, note on value of gender identification -- Regional perspective : Gender inequality in China and cultural relativism, inequality in capabilities between men and women in Mexico, femininity, equality and personhood, recovering Igbo traditions - case for indigenous women's organizations in development -- women empowerment