More than 10 years ago, Amartya Sen estimated than some 100 million women are 'missing' as a result of excess female … exacting on women in these parts of the world. All these estimates 'missing women' were based on demographic information of the … 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, there has been considerable speculation about current trends of gender bias in mortality …

At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the … achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the … findings from a growing empirical literature that suggests that gender equity in education promotes economic growth and reduce …