I turn now to a specific aspect of a general inequality that has drawn much attendon this s on my "Missin Women" published in the British Medical Journal in 1992.42 I refer to the terrible phenomenon of excess mortality and artificially lower survival rates of women in many parts of the world. This is a crude and sharply visible aspect of gender inequality, which often mani- fests itself in more subtle and less gruesome forms. But despite its crudeness, the artificially higher female mortality rates reflect a very important capability deprivation of women