- National Institute of Public Finance and Policy2020
- UN-Women2016
- Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research2014
- Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development, Centre for Development Studies2004
Gender discrimination in the employment sector is enduring, an overwhelming majority of women working within the boundaries of informal sectors.
- World Bank Group2001
- Kali for Women1998
The high female infant mortality rates (Miller, 1985), the practice of female infanticide (Krishnaswamy, 1988), the neglect of female children with regard to access to health services, nutrition (Sen and Sengupta 1983) and education (Mankekar, 1985), and the sexual abuse of girls (Bhalerao, 1985)
- Economic and Political Weekly1998
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.
- Social Action1994
About one quarter of India's population comprises girl children up to the age of 19 years. Today's girl is tomorrow's mother. However, she is discriminated socially, psychologically, economically and in violation of the law.
- Sage Publication
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.
How does one analytically locate the social phenomenon manifested in India during the last few years since the advent of sex-selection technology in the mid- 70s?