The Study highlights the national level parliaments and critically review quota designs,
practices and experiences of women parliamentarians on both quota seats, as well as
general seats. In this action research project, experiences with quota designs, challenges

The International Labour Organization (ILO) initiated a project titled "Training and Information Dissemination on Women Workers' Rights" (WWWR Project) in June 1997. As part of the educational activities of the project in India, an experience, sharing workshop was organised between October 15-16,

We use data from the 1981 and 1991 censuses of India to examine (a) sex ratios among infants aged under 2, (b) child mortality (q5) by sex, and (c) estimated period sex ratios at birth (SRB) calculated by reverse survival methods, to see whether bias against female children pers

Highlighted by sensational titles such as "The endangered sex" (Miller, 1981) or "More than 100 million women are missing" (Sen, 1992), studies have long drawn attention to the unfavourable life chances of females versus males in various parts of East and South Asia.

Health of an individual is closely linked to his/her status in the society. Women universally have lower status. The society ascribes to the two sexes different attitudes, feelings, values, behaviours and activities.