“ Impoverished parents in developing countries often try to keep their sons alive in famines by taking food from their daughters, so mortality is disproportionately female. The United Nations Development Program says that in some countries, the increase in child mortality during an economic downturn is five times higher for girls than for boys…The 500 richest people in the world, according to a U.N. calculation a few years ago, earned more than the 416 million poorest people. ”
via http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/opinion/02kristof.html
I am so disgusted by those facts. The only job that would entice me to reconsider journalism again is if I could be assured that I’d get Nicholas D. Kristof’s job.
