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  INTRODUCTION Telemedicine is defined as "the use of technology (computers, video, phone, messaging) by a healthcare professional to provide diagnosis and treatment to patients in a remote location." [1] It has been shown that telemedicine is quite useful, specifically in underserved populations, where there is a lack or insufficiency of clinical treatment in, for example, remote locations. Indeed, telemedicine and telehealth services, tried and tested to be reliable and cost-effective, are today very widely available in both the developed and developing world. [2] Although the term "telemedicine" was self-promotional, it came into being in India in the year 1999, and the country's government started realizing its potential in 2000. In the year 2001, ISRO introduced the country's first SATCOM-based telemedicine network. [3] It connected Apollo Hospital in Chennai to Apollo Rural Hospital in the hamlet of Aragonda in Andhra Pradesh. The Department of

  INTRODUCTION “India has made significant economic progress in recent decades, including increasing GDP per capita. Four main variables, according to recent study, contribute to India's low—and possibly declining—FLFP rate: 1) the established patriarchal societal standards' pervasiveness, which restricts women's agency, mobility, and freedom to work; growing household incomes that, primarily based on the same standards in (, discourage women from entering the workforce; 3) The disproportionate amount of unpaid labour and unpaid caregiving that falls on women(4) The dearth of high-quality positions for women, which is exacerbated by gendered occupational segregation; and the sizeable gender wage disparity. [Image sources: Shutterstock] It is obvious that women's current underrepresentation in paid employment in India is not the result of a lack of motivation. Urban and rural Indian women who spend the majority of their time doing housekeeping state that they would be