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What are the main causes of female mortality in India?

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Population Dynamics

Amartya Sen's "More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing" (1990) fixed the terms: where women are not systematically disadvantaged they outlive men, so a deficit of women is an artefact of society, not biology. Female mortality must therefore be read across the whole life course, as an outcome of how households allocate food, money and…

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  • Infancy and childhood
  • The reproductive years
  • Adulthood
  • Violence, distress and old age
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