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Ganguly, Sriti – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2022
The paper argues that the mother's association with the child's schooling and educational needs is not just limited and peculiar to the middle-class families, as the literature suggests, but it is increasingly true of poor and working-class families too. This paper discusses how mothers from a poor neighbourhood in India straddle between household…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Poverty, Family Work Relationship
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Maslak, Mary Ann; Singhal, Gayatri – Gender and Education, 2008
Under the combined effects of commercialisation, urbanisation, migration and employment, significant changes are taking place in India's process of modernisation. One change is the emergence of a population of women with degrees in higher education. These degrees, and the individuals' desire to pursue professional positions that relate to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Womens Studies, Interviews