National Guidelines in India - Government

Planning Commission

The Five Year Plans provides the main planning thrust for Indian Society and have a major impact upon the development of women. They are administered by the .

Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD)

National Perspective Plan for Women 1988-2000 is administered by the  and lists the crucial factors affecting women’s employment which includes:

1. labour market segregation;

2. adverse affects of technology;

3. lack of unionisation;

4. human resource development policies; and,

5. policies covering workers in the informal sector.

Ministry of Education

The National Policy on Education (1986) and the Programme of Action (1992) are education policies that give priority to universal education, total literacy and the ending of gender differentials, including seeking to change the social construction of gender by educating for women’s equality.