True cost of low prices

From The True Cost of Low Prices, The Violence of Globalization:

"The first step toward understanding injustice in our world is to realize that wheather or not people are hungry, whether or not they have health care, education, and safe water depends upon decisions made by the powerful and weathly. It is hard and at times seemingly impossible for those who are well off to recognize that they are part of an economic and political system that treats people so poorly. Instead we would like to think that poverty exists because women have too many children. Or that poor people are not so smart, that they are lazy, or that their countries lack natural resources."

Some statistics that demonstate that females bear a heavy burden of this injustice:

"-In Latin America, 71 percent of female children are underweight; 17 percent of male children are.

-In India, in the state of Punjab, 21 percent of girls in low income families suffer severe malnutrition; 3 percent of boys do.

-Nine hundred million people in the world cannot read. Two-thirds are women.

-In China, South Asia, and West Asia, there are only ninety-four women for every one hundred men. Harvard economists Amartya Sen has estimated that in Asia, there are 100 million women 'missing"-49 million in China alone. Since these societies value boys more than girls, female babies are aborted or abandoned."