- 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
- Deccan Herald1999
The stark white room is echoing with dreams. "I want to become a doctor... I am engineer... I want to become a nun... (this evokes a riot of laughter) I want to become a dress designer... My dream is to become a social worker ....
- Economic and Political Weekly1998
The British first discovered female infanticide in India in 1789. Jonathan Duncan, then the resident in Benares province was asked by the Bengal council to settle the revenues in the province acquired by the raja of Benares.
- 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)
- Studies in Family Planning1998
This report examines the linkages between wife-beating and one health-related consequence for women, their experience of fetal and infant mortality.
- The Lawyers1995
A society is judged by the way it treats its women and children. So is a judicial system. Nothing is more horrifying than the sexual abuse of a child: nothing more reprehensible than a judicial system that subsequently victimises the victim, police behaviour that adds terror to agony.
- 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.