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

In June, police arrested the mother and stepfather of the victim for taking her to private fertility centres to sell her oocytes.

“Women hold up half the sky”, the Chinese saying goes. But we need to recognize that it is not an equal world for women, globally and in India.

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).