Unemployment among the educated female youth deserves separate and priority treatment as growing concern with the effects of planning process become a matter of major concern. A number of employment generation approaches were explored, and promoted but with little and limited success. From this backdrop the present book based on exploratory views and focused on such a crucial subject of human need. The paradoxical situation however pertaining to the problem at hand suggested in the book is complete non-relationship between higher education and its potentially for employment, whereas on the other hand higher education is the only key to find employment. Even this prospective some of the salient features of the problems have been analysed in the book with a view to helping the policy makers in formulating appropriate strategies and approaches whose efficiency would be judged in the removal of genders disparities. The author has also carried out the micro level study of Lucknow (U.P.) objectively and presented empirical realities regarding needs and problems of unemployed educated female youth and based on findings of the study made positive and viable recommendations for appropriate channellizations of unemployment problems especially amongst educated female youth in India.

A flood of literature on the problem concerning women in the more advanced countries has come out. But very few of these works could serve the desired objective in terms of composite content and perspective. It is therefore, necessary to understand the scientific basis of women development so that public opinion can be more informed and teachers, social workers and specialists can really contribute in larger measure towards adequate attention of women in our country. Thus, the joint venture is undertaken as an academic exercise to provide an overall view and includes the valuable contributions from social scientists to present a more comprehensive approach covering aspects of reading materials as well as some critical analysis. The book encompasses a wide range of content and approaches in the ambit and, as such it is expected to be of much interest to a vast spectrum of scholars.

Over the last two decades there has been much evidence to show that the situation and the position of women in developing countries have deteriorated. As we enter the third development decade, several questions have naturally been raised regarding the nature of this development, and the role of women in such development. The present attempt has been taken to understand why women have been left out of the development process. This book examines the insights of this perspective trying to trace out some of the main trends and issues relating to women and development. It explores how to solve problems caused by development plans and policies which are detrimental to women. This book is not an in-depth study or analysis but is meant simply to be a guide to recent thinking and literature about women and development.

The present book is itself a sustained piece of foreword to the future of modern man! Mr. Naik's book is a veritable linguistic Kaleidoscope of different world scenarios-political, economic, social, cultural, religious, environmental, and even sexual-crisscrossing one another and thereby providing new insights and illuminations. Like ancient seers, this modern seer (BVN) has composed a new Mantra for the moderns; to survive, secularise and globalise. Yes, the exhortation of the new mantra (probably the new Gayatri mantra) is in tune as predicted by the great Russian poet, Mayakovsky.