- National Institute of Public Finance and Policy2020
- UN-Women2016
- Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development, Centre for Development Studies2004
Gender discrimination in the employment sector is enduring, an overwhelming majority of women working within the boundaries of informal sectors.
- World Bank Group2001
- Understanding Women's Health Issues1998
The high female infant mortality rates (Miller, 1985); the practice of female infanticide (Krishnaswamy, 1988); the neglect of female children with regard to access to health services, nutrition, (Sen and Sengupta, 1983 and education (Mankekar, 1985); and the sexual abuse of girls (Bhalerao, 1985
- Economic and Political Weekly1998
STRONG preference for sons over daughters exists in the Indian subcontinent, east Asia, north Africa and west Asia unlike in the western countries [Muthurayappa et al 1997, Lancet 1990, Okun 1996].
- Kali for Women1998
The high female infant mortality rates (Miller, 1985), the practice of female infanticide (Krishnaswamy, 1988), the neglect of female children with regard to access to health services, nutrition (Sen and Sengupta 1983) and education (Mankekar, 1985), and the sexual abuse of girls (Bhalerao, 1985)
- Economic and Political Weekly1998
IT is indeed a tall claim, almost an impossible task - to set in motion the immobile-to create spectators who would continue to perform.
- IASSI Quaterly1997
Long back in 1971, the committee on the status of women in India was appointed by the Government of India to undertake a comprehensive examination of all the questions relating to the rights and status of women in the context of changing social and economic conditions in the country and new probl
- Social Action1994
About one quarter of India's population comprises girl children up to the age of 19 years. Today's girl is tomorrow's mother. However, she is discriminated socially, psychologically, economically and in violation of the law.