Jagori and Safetipin undertook a rapid assessment on perceptions with regard to safety of women and girls in public spaces, and to identify perspectives and strategies that would guide further designing of interventions in three cities of Haryana – Bahadurgarh, Jhajjar and Rohtak.

The objective of the study is to gather data about experiences and perceptions about sexual harassment in public spaces faced by women and girls in Rohtak.

While it is laudable that the Indian government has made the effort to initiate a holistic reproductive health programme, its failure to address issues of sexuality that arise in this context is puzzling.

We use data from the 1981 and 1991 censuses of India to examine (a) sex ratios among infants aged under 2, (b) child mortality (q5) by sex, and (c) estimated period sex ratios at birth (SRB) calculated by reverse survival methods, to see whether bias against female children pers