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The last paragraph in page four of “More than 100 Million Missing Women” by Indian philosopher and economist Amartya Sen discusses about the relationship between economic development and deficit of women. He states, “Certainly all the countries with large deficits of women are more or less poor” (Sen, 4) through this statement we can understand that there are more missing women in poor countries. Therefore if there is an economic development the standard of life of a woman might also become better. He supports this claim by giving an example that if women were provided with better hospital facilities “the rate of maternal mortality at childbirth can be expected to decrease” (Sen, 5). Hence, economic development do not cause deficit of women.
To prove that economic development do not cause deficit of women Sen provides a data which states “Punjab and Haryana –among the richest and most economically advanced Indian states have very low ratios of women to men (around 0.86), in contrast to the much poorer states of Kerala, where ratio is greater than1.03. (Sen, 5) This evidence implies that the state with higher economic development has deficit of women whereas the state having poor economic development has no deficit of women. The first example shows that there is direct or positive relationship between economic development and the population of women because if the economic development is high then she would get other facilities and there would be better survival rates. But in the second illustration shows he inverse relationship between economic development and population of women because in economically developed state there is deficit of women whereas the economically poor state has higher rate of women’s population. The writer uses illustrations, data, statistics, and comparison between two states or countries to support his claim.
The main idea of the essay “More than 100 Million Missing Women” is to inform, create awareness among people regarding the difference in the population of men to women and persuading the audience to react by suggesting ways to remove this inequality. The main idea of the paragraph I have chosen is about the economic development and the population of women. This paragraph supports the main claim of the essay clearing the doubts and confusions regarding the economic development and population of women
Works cited
Sen, Amartya, “More Than 100 Million Missing Women.” Nybooks Archives. Dec 20, 1990. Mar 31, 2013.

In the essay “A Room of One’s Own” the writer creates an imaginary character named Judith Shakespeare, who is supposed to be William Shakespeare’s sister. She was adventurous, imaginative as her brother and also extraordinarily gifted. However, she was not allowed to go to school and learn grammar or logic as her brother. There existed gender discrimination that resulted as a tragedy of killing herself for trying to flee from the boundaries of society.

According to historian’s point of view women are considered weak and incapable of reading, writing or doing any other job except for handling households. Similarly, the poets only consider women for their physical beauty and claims that they do not possess the intelligence. In contrast to historians and poets point of view Judith Shakespeare was capable like her brother but she was not given an opportunity to enhance her inherited qualities. The author chooses to write about the imaginary character “Judith Shakespeare” instead of telling the story of real women because she could hardly get any information about women’s life during the Elizabethan age. Therefore, she used fiction in order to form the image of women’s lifestyle and status which was not available in the real world.