Gender issues have attacked the attention of and eventually have evolved as one distinct discipline of recent scholarship. While plethora of investigative as well as exploratory research reports are coming out roughly, routinely, the pain, plights and flagrant disregard of the basic rights and entitlements particularly of rural womenfolk are still rampant, if not insurmountable.

This volume contains many research papers that examine different facets of gender issues, offers invaluable insights including the roadmap. Undoubtedly, the research papers would stir out consciousness, broaden our understanding and grasp and would specify the policy priority. All in all, the churning effects are expected to endure.

Gender refers to socially Constructed roles which are likely to vary from society to another and which change signifi cantly as societies develop and evolve overtime. Gender issues are related to the rights, violation of rights, sufferings and strategies for each gender in society. Nowadays the matter regarding third gender, trans gender are drawing attention of the social scientists side by side the fi rst and second gender i.e. male and female. Masculinity,

Patriarchal structure of the society, sufferings of women in society are always the centre of attraction among academicians and research scholars. The general people are not well known about the Government strategies or legal policies regarding gender equality. A new fi eld of research is explored by the social scientists in the connection. This has also became relevant by introducing Women’s Studies, Gender Studies at different institutions. This edited volume is trying to answer the question which has risen in the field of gender issues in india.