Panchayat Raj: Women Changing Governance
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Devaki Jain is a renowned writer and activist from India. She began her career as an economist but gave up a prestigious tenured university position to devote herself to a range of activities revolving around women, their living conditions, their situations, their strengths and their quest for a peaceful and just world. Devaki helped to develop networks of advocates for women's empowerment, including the network of Economists Interested in Women's Issues and the Ghandian Women's Network. But perhaps the most well-known network is DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era). She is also a founding-member of Kali, the first feminist publishing house in Asia.
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