"The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the …

The "missing women" dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of … ; India …

apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries … among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that … of missing women are confirmed. The one finding that remains and deserves further attention is some evidence of gender …

of service delivery and women's democratic participation. Using survey data from the Sangli district, Maharashtra, we … the democratic participation of the women in the female sarpanch villages, again driven by the impact of female sarpanchs … elected 3 1/2 years before the survey. The democratic participation of women, in turn, affects the availability of services …

This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force … factors in explaining the declining workforce participation of women in India. We also explore other individual and household … participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied …

Existing estimates of the ’tock of missing women’ suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …

Existing estimates of the 'stock of missing women' suggest that the problem is mostly concentrated in South and East … yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the 'flow of missing women', suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger … than previously found (about 4 to 5 million excess female deaths per year vs. around 100 million missing women in total …