There is little diversity in the image of women's beauty. The message seems to be: be Indian, be sexy, be thin, be glamorous even when your back aches, be a superwoman but what ever you do - don't think!
 

Empirical evidence shows that women contribute significantly to the running of family businesses; on the other hand, many of the enterprises defined as being run by women are in fact run in their names by men who control operations and decision making. Programmes meant to reach women entrepreneurs can succeed only if they take note of this paradox as well as of the familial and social conditioning that reduces the confidence, independence and mobility of women.
 

Breastfeeding is a way of life with Indian women. Modern contraceptive practice for child-spacing are accepted only by the educated few. The full potential of breastfeeding acting as a natural child-spacer is not appreciated. Educating the Indian women to follow certain guidelines so that the full benefits of breastfeeding as a child-spacer would go a long way in improving India's Maternal & Child Health and population problems.

Women are central in the Indian society. An understanding of women's situation in India is a great step toward an understanding of the whole people's situation. In addition, women are the keys to the development of India. If the women's situation is improved, the situation of all Indians will improve. Therefore, women can be said to be the window into India's interior world, and into the issues that overwhelm the nation. This is due to the somewhat paradoxical fact that Indian women, although they make up a complex and diverse group and live under totally different conditions as individuals, in a fundamental way share common experiences and interests. Whatever their position in the social structure, whatever additional abuse they are suffering from, such as the apartheid-like ethnic discrimination imposed through the caste-system, Indian women will all find themselves being oppressed as women.