National specialised agencies and women's equality

Report prepared by Lotika Sarkar.

The Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS) is a group of professionals striving to work for the realization of women's equality and development in all spheres of social life. s its main role as that of a It visualizes its may their catalyst in assisting women to realize their full potential and exercise active influence on society and its transformation. The goals of national fuller and equal policy which support for all participation of women in aspects and spheres of national life and development can be promoted if the ideas and institutions that marginalize women's role in and contributions to society are weakened-or eliminated.
The main objective of the Centre, therefore, is to help in the promotion, development, and dissemination of knowledge regarding evolution of women's roles in society and trends in social and economic organisation which impinge on their lives and status, with a view to:
1. Enhancing women's effective participation in the development process
2. Assisting in the framing and implementation of measures for realising women's equality;
3. Changing social attitudes regarding women.