CHENNAI: According to the fourth round District Level Household and Facility Survey (DLHS) in 42,000 households across the state, in Tamil Nadu, 51 per cent of women against a mere 0.3 per cent of men have undergone sterilisation between 2012-2013. “Be it sexual health, reproduction or pregnancy, the burden is always imposed on women. Sterilisation is not a woman’s concern alone,” says Geeta Sethi, Secretary General, Family Planning Association of India (FPAI), an NGO that promotes sexual health and family planning. The survey indicates that while female sterilisation in rural areas is 52.2 per cent, in urban areas it was 48.9 per cent. Only 0.3 per cent men in urban areas and 0.2 per cent in rural places were sterilised. The last round of the survey revealed that even with a lesser sample size of 32,000 households, the figure was over 54 per cent for women and 0.2 percent (rural and urban) for men.