There is a growing focus on generating evidence on violence against informal women workers across the world.

Education is accorded a high priority in development policy in most countries, including India.

“Women hold up half the sky”, the Chinese saying goes. But we need to recognize that it is not an equal world for women, globally and in India.

Education is a fundamental requirement for enhancing overall quality of individual and societal life.

Sterilization is the most popular method of contraception in India. The 1992-93 National Family Health Survey found that of the 36.2 percent of eligible couples using any modern method, most (30.7 percent) had been sterilized and only 5.5 percent were using temporary methods (IIPS 1995).