This article documents the emergent discussion of middle-class women and work outside of the home in India’s pre-Independence period through an

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

India's efforts to promote family planning have produced a significant increase in the couple protection rate (CPR) which has increased by about 33 percent during the last 22 years-from 10.4 percent in 1970 to 43.5 in 1992.

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