In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West -- as high as 1.07 in China … and India, and even higher in Pakistan. A number of authors (most notably Sen, 1992) have suggested that this imbalance … reflects excess female mortality and, as a result, have argued that as many as 100 million women are "missing". This paper …

Latin America, India, and China. Crude and standardised mortality rates are reported, standardized mortality ratios … and economic factors. Compared with the US, mortality was much higher in urban India and rural China, much lower in Peru …, Venezuela, and urban Mexico, and similar in other sites. Mortality rates were higher among men, and increased with age …

question to explore especially since it has been so little studies especially in India. This study attempts to understand women … engineers in India, situating them within the context of women’s status and their role in the national development. This study … examines the trends and changed relationship in India, using the resources available from the engineering education field …

Age is one of the core topics in Census. In Census 2011, for the first time data on both date of birth and age has been …

parameters such as age, educational qualifications, industry, work experience, designation, level of skill, marital status, etc …

explanations. A decomposition of missing women by age across the states of India is done. The state-wise variation in the …Relative to developed countries, there are far fewer women than men in India. Estimates suggest that more than 25 … distribution of missing women across the age groups makes it very difficult to draw simple conclusions to explain the missing women …

A bill to provide for development of sports in India, coordination of national teams for participation in international … practices in sports (including elimination of doping practices, fraud of age and sexual harassment of women in sports), to …

domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta …