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Literacy, together with non-domestic employment, which gave women access to independent sources of income, have been regarded as important indicators of women’s ‘status’, which affected fertility and mortality outcomes.

The twentieth century has witnessed rapid transformations in labour market structures in both developed and developing countries. The changes have been so dramatic that the work place in these countries is no longer a man’s preserve.

This paper  is a preliminary exploration of the trends and spatial variation in gender differentials in adult in mo

This study analyses the coverage of three newspapers viz.