... occupational safety and health in factories and docks (DGFASLI 2015). It also advises factories on various problems concerning safety, health, and efficiency. V.V. Giri National Labour Institute is an autonomous body of Ministry Labour and Employment (V.V. Giri National Labour Institute 2015). It is a national-level centre to research on training in labour and labour-related issues. The Institute has functions of ... have a promotion system, which considers a combination of performance, recognition and expertise of the candidate to achieve the next level. On the other hand, on gender ega...

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... at her in laws house. After being found by her husband's family, she was dragged to the funeral pyre, where her husband's body was being cremated, she was thrown onto the fire to die'.8 This is the pinnacle of male expectations for women at the time. To expect basic suicide as a means of virtue is a simple denoting of pure worthless for women ... the particular form that gender divisions took in India as a vehicle for proving their liberality, as a demonstration of their superiority, and as a legitimization of their rule.9 Britain seemed to overlook male supremacy both within India and ...

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... has been dependent on men will be left with fewer independent survival options. Women's labour was mostly restricted to the household, which was under male control and when poverty forced them to work outside the household, they did so at a disadvantage to men. Because, they have rarely been ... -making (Sen and Stivens M 1998, p 254). It appears that in many cases, "Northern women may return home with some pride, and even some male admiration, if they have saved considerable amounts, and have used their earnings to support the family and to make merit- (Sen and Stivens M 1998, ... de...

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... give up their femininity. They, in fact are seen to use Bhakti as an armour of resistance and to take control of their choices and their body. They are seen to walk out of marriages (Akka MAhadevi) or reject their lives as widows (Mira) as firm statements against conventions, made in ... marriage by choosing to marry the men (in this case the Deity) of their choice. They took control of their body, Akka Mahadevi and Lal Ded having shed their clothes, not letting the female body become a vulnerability and hence a hindrance in her goal. These traditions do away with the idea of a woman's ...

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... civilising mission, introduced by the British in the early nineteenth century. The East India Company asserted its territorial control by establishing themselves as a body of traders. They brought about a new rule forming a new language of knowledge contrary to the Orientalists and classicalists known throughout India. The ... and seek to return to the purity of Upanishads. He criticised marriage and argued the ritual of sati was a plot by male members of the family to circumvent the provision allowing widows to inherit the property of their deceased husbands. Rammohun also pushed the ...

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... has been shown that magazines aimed at a female audience (Cosmopolitan, Redbook, etc.) contain about ten times as many articles and advertisements endorsing weight loss than do magazines read by a male audience (Anderson &DiDomenico, 1992). The authors also take note of the fact that this probability is almost identical to the ratio of reported cases of eating disorders between males and ... an instance in which the biological versus psychological argument may be debated, because the experiment does not investigate what factor produces the certain individuals' vulnerability for these fe...

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... Natural functions, such as sneezing, were thought to be the best way of maintaining health. When there was a build-up of any one humor, or body fluid, it could be disposed of through sweat, tears, feces, or urine. When these natural systems broke down, illness occurred. Medieval doctors stressed prevention, ... been a vital medicine in ancient India and is still used extensively as an ingredient in food preparations as well as for external application on the body. Women working in the households come in contact with water frequently and hence they apply turmeric as a thin paste, made by...

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... all. A few usages are observed by almost all Hindus: reverence for Brahmans and cows; abstention from meat (especially beef); and marriage within the caste (jati), in the hope of producing male heirs. Most Hindus chant the gayatri hymn to the sun at dawn, but little agreement exists as to what other prayers should be chanted. Most Hindus worship Shiva, Vishnu, or ... alter your current lifestyle. Sindhu - "river- "more specifically, the Indus Vedas - Veda (Sanskrit, "knowledge-), the most ancient sacred literature of Hinduism, or individual books belonging to that literature. This body ...

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