This report examines the linkages between wife-beating and one health-related consequence for women, their experience of fetal and infant mortality.
Health is a major issue in the women's movement, along with the struggle for justice, dignity and equality.
Women's health is an outcome of their social existence. The Indian women, though they had participated overwhelmingly in the National Freedom Movement, suffered since various aspects of their lives including health were under the control of the patriarchal social norms.
Of all the forms that violence against women can assume, sexual harassment is the most ubiquitous and insidious; all the more so because it is deemed 'normal' behaviour and not an assault on the female entity.
We use data from the 1981 and 1991 censuses of India to examine (a) sex ratios among infants aged under 2, (b) child mortality (q5) by sex, and (c) estimated period sex ratios at birth (SRB) calculated by reverse survival methods, to see whether bias against female children pers
Conventional measures of the ‘ femaleness’ of a population – measures such as the female headcount ratio F and the sex- ratio S—are insensitive to the precise age-specific d