Prof Jayati Ghosh on economic growth & women's health - UCL Lancet Lecture 2011
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Professor Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University) delivered the 2011 UCL Lancet Lecture: 'Economic growth and women's health outcomes'. One of the most surprising features of the recent rapid income growth in emerging economies is how it has not been associated with significant improvements in women's health outcomes. Professor Ghosh uses indicators (such as the infant mortality rate, the maternal mortality rate and the child sex ratio) to explore the specific experience of India over the past two decades. Further info: Photos by Viktor Knops: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucluphotosoc/sets/72157628247908491 UCL is consistently ranked as one of the world's very best universities. As a multi-faculty, research-intensive university in central London, our research helps tackle global challenges and feeds directly into outstanding degree programmes. Visit us at www.ucl.ac.uk
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The answer to the Medical student's question on gender selection in India:
All successive Indian governments even with female politicians in prominent posts have failed in this regard in a country where male dominance is a norm. The solution lies in educating the boys from early on in their childhood that girls and boys have equally important roles in the family's growth and in turn in the welfare of the society they live in. Fathers have failed in this. So mothers have to lead by example, in that from early on the girls should be taught not to accept unfairness, Mothers have to make sure that undue preference is not given to boys over the girls in education. Usually cleaning the house, working in the kitchen are only allocated to girls.This behaviour indirectly sow the seeds in the minds of young boys at home a wrong Idea about the girl's status. There is nothing wrong in working in the kitchen or cleaning the house but what is wrong is giving a preferential treatment to the boys. -
It has been a great pleasure to hear her voice on these topics....
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I think she's gorgeous. I find her very attractive.
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