There is a growing focus on generating evidence on violence against informal women workers across the world.

Even though sanitation was es

A preference for sons or for more sons than daughters has been documented in several countries in the world.

The British first discovered female infanticide in India in 1789. Jonathan Duncan, then the resident in Benares province was asked by the Bengal council to settle the revenues in the province acquired by the raja of Benares.

The expectant and lactating mothers are considered as nutritionally vulnerable group especially in the developing countries of the world. Due to nursing process mothers are subjected to nutritional stresses.

In the last decade, several international and national movements have focused their attention, on the long neglected areas of women's reproductive health.

Breastfeeding and lactational amenorrhoea play a unique role in child health, birth spacing and fertility regulation.

A fear of female sexuality and therefore, the need to control it have been felt in many societies and civilizations. This control has assumed different forms in different societies.