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Contentious consent
The recent developments have reignited a discourse across India with regard to the age of consent on consensual sex (18 years in India), and the...
'Women have more sex partners than men in 11 states/UTs'
The National Family Health Survey which was conducted among 1.1 lakh women and 1 lakh men showed that the number of sex partners on average for women...
Increasing hysterectomy and sugarcane cutting in Maharashtra
A vast majority of women from parts of Maharashtra, especially those from poor families, who migrate to the sugar-belt to harvest sugarcanes for daily...
India’s total fertility rate declines from 2.2 to 2.0: National Family...
The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) which is measured as the average number of children per woman, has come down from 2.2 to 2.0 at the national level...