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The follow~ng were some of the statements made In this regard .-
I. "In my house, children eat first, then my husband; I eat last" (A 32 year old
woman tn an ~n-deplh interview) Stmilar statement was made by many women
2. "My son will not have 'koozh". I have to cook something special for him.
My daughter will not say anything.
She will feel sony for me and eat
whatever I cook" (A 35 year old woman In a group d~scuss~on)
3. "It depends on how you have trained them. I will not cook anything special
for my son. He has to eat what I cook. If he doesn't like he has to starve"
(A 36 year old woman ~n a group dtscuss~on)
jb) Other epidemioloaical methods
The cornpanson of the actual Intake of d~fferent nutnents wlth he RDA, by age and
gender has already beer1 presented in the chapter on health aspects (Chapter 5 4,
Tables 5.10A-5.11E) There was no d~etary dlscnmlnatton between the genders as per
the data
7.4.3 Health care and the girl child
la) Ethnographic methods
People generally felt that attentton should be glven to a slck chlld, whether a glrl or a
boy They d~d not glve d~fferential care for girls and boys The type of treatment they
gave depended upon the money they had w~th them at that t~me Dunng a group
dlscuss~on, the pnmary school teacher sa~d."ln this village, they do not differentiate
between a sick girl and a sick boy. I have noticed that they have a lot of affection
for girls. Whenever a child falls sick, whether it is a girl or a boy, they take them to
a doctor immediately." Of the respondents to the structured questlonnalre, some
(531160, 33 I%.) said that they would go to a pr~vate doctor for mlnor allmenis and