A Defeated Argument That Refuses

Hardly Any Famine Affects More Than 5 Percent, Almost Never More Than 10 Percent, Of The Population. The Largest Proportion Of A Population Affected Was The Irish Famine Of The 1840s, Which Came Close To 10 Percent Over A Number Of Years.

Women Had Always Been Thought Of As Looking After The Family When Men Go And Earn An Income And They're The Bread Earner And So On. So There Is A Kind Of Generation Of Inequality, [and], On Top Of The Fact, Women Have Pregnancies And Periods, [and] When The Children Are Very Small, There Are Greater Demands On Their Time. So One Way Or Another Women Have Had A Pretty Rough Deal In The Past, And There's No Reason Why That Should Continue, And Any Country That Has Tried To Remedy That Has Succeeded In Doing So.

I Was Told Indian Women Don't Think Like That About Equality. But I Would Like To Argue That If They Don't Think Like That They Should Be Given A Real Opportunity To Think Like That.

Capability Is Just A Concept Of What Is It We're Looking At. Now How Far We Can Go Along That And What New Capabilities Become Possible Is Something We Have To Judge.

In Absolutely Every Way, Our Lives Are Transformed By Education And Basic Education In Particular. So I Would Have Thought That In Any Kind Of System, To Say That The Priorities Don't Include Education Is A Mistake, Whether It's [at The] Domestic Level Or At The Global Level.