| This PhD research is within the broad topic of "Changing lives of Women". It is a cross-cultural study on the impact of higher educational attainment on the changing lives of women centred on the events of union formation and first birth in India and the Netherlands. The changes are observed across generations of daughters and mothers in the same cross-cultural perspective. The research is a good mixture of secondary data analysis, which is further substantiated by In-depth interviews amongst urban high-educated women in Bangalore, Karnataka and the same group of women in Groningen, the Netherlands. Hence the research attempts to understand the cultural strategies that women adopt being in different cultures and trying to achieve their position in the society. It is thus about how women feel the same irrespective of being in different cultures that acts as the constraining and facilitating factor in women s changing lives.The research project is part of the research programme HERA (HEalthy Reproduction: Research for Action), a collaborative research programme of PRC Groningen and NIDI (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute), The Hague. |
