2. What evidence does Elizabeth Croll put forward to support her claim that female mortality rates in such countries as China and India are so excessive that they constitute a “terrible story of inequality and neglect”?

What are the cultural and economic factors that contribute to excessive female mortality in these countries? What are the reasons Croll advances to explain why efforts at the international and national levels to address this problem have been ineffective? Do you agree with Croll’s analysis? Why or why not?

Introduction to Sociology, by Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum, and Deborah Carr. New York: W.W. Norton, 2018 (11th edition)