Women and Men in India 2022: Sex ratio improves but female participation in workforce still low
Social factors, educational qualifications & gender discrimination in terms of wages & opportunities reasons for low share of women in …
Skewed sex ratio worsens marriage woes for Marathwada farmers
May encourage child marriages, worries expert
India’s sex ratio improves, but 9 million girls went ‘missing’ in last 2 decades to foeticide
Wealth, education and fertility are the key factors behind improvement
‘I almost lost my will to live’: preference for sons is leaving young women in China exploited and abused
China urgently needs policies and intervention programmes that tackle this tradition, or it will continue to limit women’s opportunities …
‘India’s growing and aging populations require investments across all sectors’
Down To Earth speaks to demography expert Poonam Muttreja about the findings of the latest National Family Health Survey
Darwin got sexual selection backwards, research suggests
Sexual selection is most pronounced not when potential mates are scarce but when they’re abundant, finds a new study
In pursuit of gender equality: Interpreting India’s changing sex ratio & strategies to adopt
While recent improvements are noteworthy, we are far from winning the battle for gender equality
NFHS-5: No, women don’t outnumber men in India just yet. Here is why
NFHS counts only certain women, who belong to specific demographic categories. There is a bias in it, say experts
World Health Day 2022: Here’s looking at health, food & India
Kerala sees sharp fall in sex ratio at birth despite being best in overall category
Bihar and Maharashtra are other major states where sex ratio at birth declined