Several legal reforms have taken place since independence in India, including on equal share of daughters to property. Yet equal status remains illusive .Establishment of laws and bringing practices in conformity thereto is necessarily a long drawn out process. The government, the legislature, the judiciary, the media and civil society has to perform their roles, each in their own areas of competence and in a concerted manner for the process to be speedy and effective.

Reproductive Health and Rights
Only a very limited number of Indian women have the opportunity to choose whether or when to have a child. Women, particularly women in rural areas, do not have access to safe and self-controlled methods of contraception. The public health system emphasizes permanent methods like sterilization, or long-term methods like IUD's that do not need follow-up and are thus felt to be more ‘fool-proof’ than other spacing methods. In fact, sterilization accounts for more than 75% of total contraception, with female sterilization accounting for almost 95% of all sterilizations

Whither women’s health
RECENT trends in public and policy awareness about women’s health needs and concerns, and actual access by women to the means and services to address those concerns show complex and contradictory tendencies. This paper identifies these tendencies and argues that a critical absence of focused attention to their implications underlies the weak progress made in improving women’s health in the country.

Women Health Tips
Some diseases like anxiety, depression, osteoporosis are more common in women. Health Tips: