The stark white room is echoing with dreams. "I want to become a doctor... I am engineer... I want to become a nun... (this evokes a riot of laughter) I want to become a dress designer... My dream is to become a social worker ....

This report examines the linkages between wife-beating and one health-related consequence for women, their experience of fetal and infant mortality.

Both as a concept and as a rallying point for gender-based concerns, the emergence of reproductive choice is a relatively new phenomenon in the area of population policy. For decades on end, population policy had been primarily, if not solely, concerned with the regulation and control of human fe

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.

Change in the size of a population takes place due to births, deaths and migration.

Should we fear the destruction of our culture because a 30-year-old woman from Chandigarh plans to `rent' her womb?