The relationship between gender diversity and firm performance has been the subject of research inquiry for over three decades now.

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

Indian society consists of immensely varied political, social, ethnic, linguistic, religious and community groups, which, by and large, reside in villages, where poverty, misconceived religious notions, social customs, illiteracy, ignorance and superstitions prevail.

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