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Male gender preference, female gender disadvantage as risk factors for psychological morbidity in Pakistani women of childbearing age - a life course perspective

BACKGROUND: In Pakistan, preference for boys over girls is deeply culturally embedded. From birth, many women experience gendered disadvantages; less access to scarce resources, poorer health care, higher child mortality, limited education, less employment outside of the home and circumscribed auton...

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Autores principales: Qadir, Farah, Khan, Murad M, Medhin, Girmay, Prince, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21958069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-745