- Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes2023
Violence against women is legitimized by social norms, beliefs and institutions.
- National Institute of Public Finance and Policy2020
- Partners for Law in Development2018
Decades of campaigning has led to signiicant changes and reform in the rape law.
- Partners for Law in Development2017
Women experience disadvantage and oppression differentially, based on their status, context and location.
- UN-Women2016
- World Bank Group2016
- 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
- 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)
- 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.