Freedom from violence and sexual coercion. Sex education and services for teenagers. Educating men to be supportive and responsible. World governments agreed the world's women deserved no less. The world women specialize in patience.
Indian women do, too.
And it appears they must continue to practice this virtue still longer. For most women in the country, comprehensive reproductive health care still remains a dream, a policy promise, at best a program design. Some reasons are understandable the complexity of adding a number of new services to an existing program and building skills of doctors to prevent and treat these problems. The large number of doctors and paramedics to be oriented towards giving greater priority to client needs than to promoting family planning solely for the sake of controlling population growth. This in a situation where the inequality of women comes in the way of their using services, or indeed even acknowledging or expressing their needs.