Full Coverage: Gender

28.09.2007 Registration of births and a crackdown on diagnostic centres have resulted in more girls being born than boys in the southern city of Hyderabad. Its success in reversing its decade-long sex-ratio is now being considered for replication in other states by the government.

27.09.2007 “Tourism Opens Doors for Women.” This is the theme for this year’s World Tourism Day, celebrated every year on September 27. It is also a call to work towards the third Millennium Development Goal of promoting gender equity and empowerment.

25.09.2007 A recent study has revealed that strong son preference and female foeticide have led to a skewed sex ratio in the state of Rajasthan in India. It also questions whether the two-child norm has led to a worsening of the situation.

21.09.2007 An office in a Mumbai brothel is bringing out India's first newsmagazine for sex-workers. The Red Light Dispatch will help these women to voice their problems and dreams, and help connect them with the masses, says the magazine's editor Anurag Chaturvedi.

13.09.2007 In a victory for those fighting for the rights of the girl-child, the Bombay High Court upholds an amendment to the law banning sex-determination tests. A Mumbai-based couple had mounted a legal challenge to the constitutional validity of the amendment that bans pre-conception gender selection.

12.09.2007 “Have a Boy, Have a Girl Guaranteed!” Five happy diapered babies, each of a different ethnicity, reach out to expectant parents of all races in an ad for a fertility clinic. But that ad for The Fertility Institutes of Los Angeles has Indian-American media caught in the throes of a dilemma.

01.09.2007