Violence against women is legitimized by social norms, beliefs and institutions.
Decades of campaigning has led to signiicant changes and reform in the rape law.
Women experience disadvantage and oppression differentially, based on their status, context and location.
The relationship between gender diversity and firm performance has been the subject of research inquiry for over three decades now.
India has the distinction of being the first country in the developing world to initiate a family planning programme-it later came to be called the Family Welfare Programme (FWP)-with a view to bring down the country's fertility level and contain population growth.
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