This survey argues that after decades of continuous progress in reducing gender inequality in developing and developed … countries, since about 2000, there has been an unexpected stagnation and regress in many dimensions of gender inequality in many … parts of the world. This is most visible in labor markets, but also visible across a range of dimensions of gender …

as a health indicator variable. The multinomial logit results show that keeping all other factors constant, girls are 1 … reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in … that the probability of infant and very young girls with live female siblings to die in hospital is extremely low. The …

higher than that of girls. Moreover, in line with our theoretical framework, the results indicate that the gender gap …The 'missing women' dilemma in India has sparked great interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision … of health care in the country. No studies, however, have directly examined discrimination in health-care financing …

The existing literature on "missing women" has suggested that the problem is mostly concentrated in India and China …, and mostly related to sex-selective abortions and post-birth neglect of female children. In a recent paper in the Review …, they, and the World Bank which subsequently followed this method, find that gender bias in mortality is much larger than …

Asia, and often related to sex-selective abortions and postbirth neglect of female children. In contrast, estimates of … yearly excess female deaths, referred to as the ’flow of missing women’, suggest that gender bias in mortality is much larger …), is as severe among adults as it is among children in India, and is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in South and East …