This collaborative report between, Lokniti a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung has attempted to look at women

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

Demographic literature is replete with observations of an inverse relation between certain attributes of modernity and family size (Thompson 1929; Notestein 1945; Coale and Hoover 1958; Leiberman 1980, Srinivasan 1986).

There is a growing recognition that gynaecological morbidity is an important health problem among poor women in India.