Despite years of hard work and long-drawn conviction to raise an inclusive society, India continues to remain a country with all forms of inequities and socio-economic divides. In health too, it is common to observe such divides. Preferential treatment given to males is particularly high in medical care, and there are studies by doctors to reveal that boys receive more prompt attention than girls in medical contingencies and cases of hospitalisation (Kumar 2001). It may however be interesting to note that the results drawn in this study supplant a few of these arguments and portray a reverse picture. Table 4.1 indicates a significantly large share of women in utilisation of hospitalised treatment. In addition, it happens almost across the board. More or less the same is true for the nonhospitalised care as well. The reason why we draw an excess of health care by women over men in this analysis is however not very difficult to identify. Our sample is inclusive of women in child-bearing ages as well, and the overall hospitalisation cases are based on all forms of ailments including pre- or postnatal care, delivery and gynaecological problems along with most other normal health-related issues and injuries. The same explanation holds for the nonhospitalised cases as well. This point is reiterated further by Fig. 4.1 that gives a distribution of women accessing both hospitalised and nonhospitalised health care across five broad age categories, i.e. 0–4, 5–14, 15–39, 40–49 and 60 years or above. We notice from this figure that the share of women in the 15–39 age group—normally considered as the prime years in the reproductive lifespan of women—is the highest followed by those in the 5–14 and 40–59 age groups.