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Background
The Women's Agency for Generating Employment (WAGE) was
established on the occasion of the International Women's Day on
8th March 1990 and was inaugurated by the then
Minister-in-Charge of Women and Child Development, Government of
India Smt. Usha Sinha on 5th June 1990 in the Auditorium of
India International Centre, 40 Lodi Estate, New Delhi in the
presence of more than 200 women representatives from all over
the world.
The idea behind establishing WAGE is to generate employment
among women with a view to empower them in all aspects also by
providing them necessary and required training support for
ensuring that they become job givers rather than job seekers by
becoming entrepreneurial leaders.
Between 1990 and 2016, many
researches have been conducted in different areas relating to
women's development and empowerment. Accordingly many
publications have been brought out in the form of occasional
monographs and case books.
During the year 2017, the World Encyclopaedia of Women has been
brought out in 45 Volumes by WAGE with the help of the editorial
and information support from many organizations. The following
are the volumewise details :
Volume 1 Women Today
Volume 2 Feminist Theology
Volume 3 Feminine Psychology
Volume 4 History of Feminism
Volume 5 Feminist Theories
Volume 6 Introduction to Women’s Studies
Volume 7 Women : Past and Present
Volume 8 Status of Women
Volume 9 Women’s Education
Volume 10 Crime Against Women
Volume 11 Violence Against Women
Volume 12 Women : Family, Marriage and Social Operation
Volume 13 Women’s Development
Volume 14 Women : Gendering Work, Feminism and Postmodernism
Volume 15 Women’s Welfare
Volume 16 Women’s Health
Volume 17 Women : Fertility, Contraception and Family Planning
Volume 18 Women’s Issues
Volume 19 Policies, Programmes and Commission on Women
Volume 20 Women’s Challenges
Volume 21 Contemporary Women’s Studies
Volume 22 Women’s Empowerment
Volume 23 Women and Entrepreneurship
Volume 24 Women in Politics
Volume 25 Equitable Development for Women
Volume 26 Women in North East India
Volume 27 Gender Sensitisation
Volume 28 Economic Development of Women
Volume 29 Political Socialisation of Women
Volume 30 Indian Women Writing in English
Volume 31 Women and Religion
Volume 32 Exploitation of Women
Volume 33 Women Rights and Duties
Volume 34 Women’s Movements in India
Volume 35 Women’s Equality and Development
Volume 36 Women and Law
Volume 37 Women and Employment
Volume 38 Women and Social Change
Volume 39 Working Women
Volume 40 Future of Women
Volume 41 Women and Rural Development
Volume 42 Domestic Women Workers
Volume 43 Indian Women and Globalisation
Volume 44 Tribal Women in India
Volume 45 Women in India
Price : For the entire Set : Rs. 95,500 only.
MASTERPLAN PARADIGM ENVISAGED BY WAGE (2016-2025)
1. To create an environment
through positive economic and social policies for full
development of women to enable them to realize their full
potential.
2. To ensure de-jure and de-facto enjoyment of all human rights
and fundamental freedom by women on equal basis with men in all
spheres - political, economic, social, cultural and civil.
3. To allow equal access to participation and decision making of
women in social, political and economic life of the nation.
4. To provide equal access to women to health care, quality
education at all levels, career and vocational guidance,
employment, equal remuneration, occupational health and safety,
social security and public office etc.
5. To strengthen legal systems aimed at elimination of all forms
and types of discrimination against women.
6. To change the societal attitudes and community practices by
active participation and involvement of both men and women.
7. To mainstream a gender perspective in the development
process.
8. To eliminate the discrimination and all forms of violence
against women and the girl child.
9. To build and strengthen partnerships with civil society,
particularly women's organizations.
10. To develop gender development indices, by networking with
specialized agencies.
11. To undertake gender auditing and development of evaluation
mechanisms.
12. To undertake the collection of gender-disaggregated data by
all primary data collecting agencies of the Central and State
Governments as well as research and academic institutions in the
Public and Private Sectors.
13. To design an alternative strategy of development comprising
a frontal attack on poverty, unemployment and malnutrition.
14. To provide access to, and to take benefits from, the public
health system that have been very uneven between the
better-endowed and the more vulnerable sections of society.
15. To endorse the policy that a diverse developing society such
as ours provides numerous challenges in the economic, social,
political, cultural, and environmental arenas. All of these
coalesce in the dominant imperative of alleviation of mass
poverty, reckoned in the multiple dimensions of livelihood
security, health care, education, empowerment of the
disadvantaged, and elimination of gender disparities.
16. To provide universal access and enrolment of the girl child.
17. To provide universal retention of the girl children up to 14
years of age.
18. To ensure a substantial improvement in the quality of girl
education to enable all the girl children to achieve essential
levels of learning.
19. To advise all nations to understand that they should be
judged by the well-being of their female population and through
the levels of health, nutrition and education; by the civil and
political liberties enjoyed by their female citizens; by the
protection guaranteed to female children and by provisions made
for the vulnerable and the disadvantaged.
20. To have an understanding that the women in India constitute
about 595 million representing 48 percent of the total
population.
21. To ensure that such a high percent of valuable human
resource do not face disparities in access to and control over
resources and constitute as one the most vulnerable and
marginalized.
22. To ensure that women's risk of premature death and
disability do not take place as it is highest during their
reproductive years. Maternal mortality is not merely a health
disadvantage, it is a matter of social injustice.
23. To improve the status of female as low social and economic
status of girls and women limits their access to education, good
nutrition, as well as money to pay for health care and family
planning services.
24. To empower women and enhance their employment opportunities
through the participation of women in the paid work force.
25. To promote a gender sensitive, multi-sectoral agenda for
population stabilisation, that will think, plan and act locally,
and support nationally.
26. To ensure under-nutrition and micronutrient deficiency do
not take place as it goes beyond mere food entitlements to
woman's well-being. To the extent that women are
over-represented among the poor, interventions for improving
women's health and nutrition are critical for poverty reduction.
27. To remove the poor female literacy rate, and gender based
inequality, social discrimination and economic exploitation,
occupation of girl child in domestic chores, and improve low
enrolment of girls in schools, and low retention rate and high
dropout rate etc.
28. Therefore, the main strategies should be for increasing
female literacy in the country including providing and imparting
functional literacy, universalization for elementary education
and non-formal education.
29. To strengthen the cause of National Literacy Mission or
Sakshar Bharat Mission, with its objective of extending
educational options to those adults who have no access to formal
education, targeted female literacy as a critical instrument for
women's empowerment.
30. And to generally do all that is required and is conducive to
the overall development of women.
SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS OF THE WOMEN'S AGENCY FOR GENERATING
EMPLOYMENT (WAGE) OBSERVED ON 8th MARCH 2015 AT NEW DELHI
The following monographs were presented and discussed between
8th March 2015 and 8th March 2016 :
1. Feminist Archaeology
2. Gender Archaeology,
3. Feminism and Architecture
4. Feminist Art Movement
5. Feminism Atheist
6. Black Feminism
7. Female Bonding
8. Bride Burning
9. Bride Kidnapping
10. Christian Feminism
11. Women’s Cinema
12. Women in Computing
13. Difference Feminism
14. Gender Differences
15. Discrimination
16. Distinction, Sex and Gender
17. Domestic Violence
18. Cult of Domesticity
19. Ecofeminism
20. Feminist Economics
21. Female Education
22. Feminist Egalitarianism
23. Women in Engineering
24. Gender Neutrality in English
25. Feminist Philosophy
26. Feminist Political Ecology
27. Feminist Revisionist Mythology
28. Gender and Crime
29. Gender Archaeology
30. Gender Binary
31. Gender Differences
32. Gender Equality
33. Gender Performativity
34. Gender Sociology
35. Girl Power
36. History of Women in the Military
37. Sexual Harassment
38. Gender Identity
39. Islamic Feminism
40. Feminism in India
41. Women in Journalism and Media Professions
42. Liberal Feminism
43. Legal Rights of Women
44. Gender Mainstreaming
45. Women in Medicine
46. Feminist Movement
47. Radical Feminism
48. Reproductive Justice
49. Separatist Feminism
50. Sociology of Motherhood
51. Feminist Therapy
52. Third-Wave Feminism
53. Violence Against Women
54. Waves of Feminism
55. Womanism
56. Women's Health
57. Women and Skill Development
58. Women and Politics
59. Women and Social Service
60. Women and Entrepreneurship
Further information and Contact :
Dr. Tanuja Trivedi, Director
Women's Agency for Generating Employment (WAGE)
A 42-43, Paryavaran Complex, South of Saket
New Delhi - 110030
Tel.: 011-40543739, 011-41096948
Email : [email protected]
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