'Bread and a pennyworth of treacle': Excess female mortality in England in the 1840s
The observation of relatively high female mortality in the populations of contemporary less-developed countries and historically in Western Europe has been interpreted as indicating socioeconomic discrimination against females. Mortality rates, though not mechanically linked to welfare levels, may r...
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Oxford University Press
1991
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