Gender inequality and discrimination challenges the social economic and environmental sustainability in achieving inclusive development. The absence of a gender-aware perspective in the virtuous development issue is often justified from the premise that development is a male-dominated domain. Many a times, it is assumed that when given control of resources, women are always likely to support policies that give significance to equality, peace and sustainable development and those women have an inherent concern for inclusive development. This books opines gender sensitive research can help to make sure that the conditions for achieving the sustainable development goals. This is because gender concerns are at times equated with women's concerns and women's empowerment is unspoken to be ‘implementable as top-down essentialism’ without taking into deliberation the differences among men and women in their engagement with the developmental process. This book will be useful to the researches, policymakers and NGOs working on gender issues.

Dr. D.C. Nanjunda is currently associated with Social Exclusion Research Centre, Mysore University, India. He has Done Ph.D. in Anthropology form Mysore. He is the author of over Eight dozen of research papers including edited and authored books. He is having few years of research experience in various public health issues. He is a member of the editorial board of few professional journals. He has been awarded little prestigious fellowship to his credit. His research areas are Applied and Clinical Sociology, Development Anthropology, Public Health, Rural and Tribal Issues and Policy Studies.

Dr. B.S. Divya is currently serving as an  Asst. Professor of Economics in Govt. Women’s College, Mandya-Karnataka. She has Done Ph.D. in Economics from Mysore University. She is the author of over three dozen of research papers including edited and authored books. She is having few years of research and teaching experience in various issues in Economics. She is a member of the editorial board of few noted journals.