Education is accorded a high priority in development policy in most countries, including India.
Education is a fundamental requirement for enhancing overall quality of individual and societal life.
We use data from the 1981 and 1991 censuses of India to examine (a) sex ratios among infants aged under 2, (b) child mortality (q5) by sex, and (c) estimated period sex ratios at birth (SRB) calculated by reverse survival methods, to see whether bias against female children pers
Highlighted by sensational titles such as "The endangered sex" (Miller, 1981) or "More than 100 million women are missing" (Sen, 1992), studies have long drawn attention to the unfavourable life chances of females versus males in various parts of East and South Asia.
The statement, tucked away in one of the many thick Agrawal Samaj magazines I had been perusing, made me smile.