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.

The drive for a rapid development in the education of women came largely from a perception summed up aptly in .the following statement by Mayhew: "women

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