ATLAS OF GENDER AND HEALTH INEQUALITIES IN INDIA

Book Details:

• ISBN: 9783031778612

• Author: Christophe Z. Guilmoto

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Binding: Hardback

• Number of Pages: 264

• Publication Year: 2025

• Sale Territory: India Only

About the Book
This book addresses the pressing question of how the world’s largest population, India, will tackle its inequality challenges. By exploring the emerging health and gender geographies in India, it offers a comparative study of disparities and highlights the deep interconnections between health challenges and patriarchal features. It is the first book of its kind to examine gender and health imbalances in India through a detailed spatial and demographic lens.

Using data from the latest sociodemographic survey conducted between 2019-2021, the book provides a comprehensive Atlas of India, featuring district-level figures that visually represent the spatial patterns of gender and health inequalities. The text is structured around twenty chapters, each illustrated by 75 original maps, figures, and tables contributed by thirty authors. It covers a broad range of innovative topics, such as access to menstrual hygiene, cesarean deliveries, health insurance, son preference in fertility, female landownership, patrilocal systems, hypertension, anemia, hysterectomy, and the dynamics of girl-only or single-child families.

The chapters in this volume offer surprising insights into India’s current and future gender and health landscape. They illustrate the progress made over the last two decades while also pointing out the persistent gaps and emerging issues that need urgent attention.

Contents

• Sources, Maps, and Spatial Analysis
  Christophe Z. Guilmoto

• Nutrition and Morbidity

  • Underweight and Overweight Prevalence Among Indian Women - Rakesh Kumar, Abhishek Kumar, Sunil Rajpal, William Joe

  • Vegetarianism and Non-Vegetarian Consumption in India - Mathieu Ferry

  • Diabetes and Hypertension Among Indian Women - Moradhvaj Dhakad

  • Anemia Among Children and Women in India - Ankita Srivastava, Bandita Boro

  • Female Under-Five Mortality in India - Jayanta Kumar Bora

• Gender

  • Women’s Land Ownership and Patrilocality in India - Thomas Licart

  • Spatial Patterns of Son Preference in India - Abhishek Singh, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay

  • Girl-Only Families in India - Mary E. John, Christophe Z. Guilmoto

  • Migration of Husbands of Indian Women - Kirti Gaur, Kunal Keshri

  • Age at Marriage of Indian Women - Aparajita Chattopadhyay, Akancha Singh

• Reproductive Health

  • Menstrual Hygiene Practices Among Indian Women - M. Sivakami

  • Utilization of Antenatal Care Services Among Indian Women - Junaid Khan

  • Institutional Delivery and Cesarean Births in India - Christophe Z. Guilmoto

  • Immunization Coverage Among Indian Children - Basant Kumar Panda, Gulshan Kumar

  • Hysterectomy in India - Angad Singh, Dipti Govil

• Reproduction

  • Health Insurance Coverage in India - Bertrand Lefebvre

  • Fertility Differentials in India - Ismail Haque, Md Juel Rana

  • Lowest-Low Fertility in India - Koyel Sarkar

  • Female Sterilization in India - Raman Mishra

  • Modern and Traditional Contraception Among Indian Women - Aditi Kundu, Bhaswati Das, Angad Singh

• Epilogue

  • The Geography of Gender and Health Inequalities in India - Christophe Z. Guilmoto

About the Author / Editor
Christophe Z. Guilmoto is a Senior Fellow in demography at the French Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) and is affiliated with the CEPED research unit in Paris. He has taught at Université Paris Descartes and EHESS and currently works at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. His research focuses on demographic inequalities, particularly gender-biased sex selection and the social and spatial determinants of health.

Guilmoto has authored numerous publications on demographic topics, particularly sex imbalances at birth. His previous books include Demographic Transformation in China, India, and Indonesia (coedited with Gavin Jones, Springer 2016). His recent work has appeared in various prestigious journals, including Population Studies, Population and Development Review, and Lancet Global Health.