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Letter: Points for progeny

Published 30 September 1995

From J.R.P. Singh

Women fare worse than men in every culture, as measured by the UN “gender development index” (This Week, 19 August). But this may in part be due to the fact that the index awards no points for continuous intimate contact with one’s progeny for months or years after birth. This contribution is at least as important in human terms as income, literacy or school enrolment.

Issue no. 1997 published 30 September 1995

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