Amartya Sen, in his article, “More Than A 100Million Missing Women”, discusses gender ratio around the world. He argues that the “two simplistic explanations” (Sen, 2)—“cultural contrast between East and West” and “economic development” (Sen, 2-3). But this gap cannot be adequately described by these two “implicitly” (Sen, 2) alleged analyses because of variation of correlation between these two and gender gap. With this he also gives “the important variables—female employment or female literacy” (Sen, 11). In the fifth part of his article, he introduces these two variables going into deep analysis which makes the second paragraph of this part an important one.
Though some may think that the two variables economy and employment are similar but Sen argues that they are not. We need to incorporate economic, cultural and social factors behind “women’s deprivation” (Sen, 11). He gives hard evidence—mathematical figures—to prove how Kerala in southwestern India having ratio of women to men as 1.03 is “not deficit of women” (Sen, 11) and certainly to gain credibility by appealing to readers sense of logos. But at the same time he appeals to reader’s sense of pathos making them think on how the factor, literacy rate, affects women’s survival. The literacy rate in Kerala makes its women to men ratio almost equal to Europe (1.05) (Sen, 11). With this his very purpose of showing how literacy rate and employment are important factors in analyzing the gender gap is served. He gives data and fact of Kerala being higher literacy rated state in India and having no deficiency of women. Here, he basically wants to emphasis on importance of literacy rate which affects women’s chances of survival very much. More educated people are, less will be the female mortality rate because of medical developments and education. And with high education women are likely to get employment.
In this paragraph he introduces the major factors which “deserve examination” (Sen, 12) and gives hard evidence to prove his point. This is basically the key paragraph of his article where he presented these overlooked factors affecting women’s survival rate highly. He gives explanation to his point. With literacy rate, the survival rate of women increased with the education amongst people, thus, increasing the employment opportunities for women. Thus, this very paragraph serves the key role in his article.
Work Cited
Sen, Amartya. “More Than 100 Million Missing Women.” Nybooks Archives. Dec 20, 1990. Mar 31, 2013.
AUW's Interpreting Texts, Spring 2013 
Nivedita Negi, I am really impressed with the way you write; you have a unique way of writing and explaining your ideas and arguments. I adore the idea of including logos and pathos in writing as it decorates your writing. As a whole, I liked the way you organize words and put them forward in a very simpler way so that reader can understand it easily.
Thank you Priyanka Pal for reading my writing so carefully and presenting your thoughts on it.
Firstly I want to thank you for giving me the oppurtunity to read your writing. I really liked your transitions from from one paragraph to another paragraph. You have also used enough textual evidence and also incorporated these evidences in an organized way. However, I feel that you can analyze these evidences more. Another thing I found while reading your writing was that you used “he” almost every time. This sometimes may become repetitive. Overall, I really liked your writing as your organization and content was good. Thank you once again!