Clear Quote by Amartya Sen

Your voice is much more articulate and people listen to you if you've been to school. In family decisions, not surprisingly, the biggest impact…

— Amartya Sen

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the…

— Sachin Tendulkar

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

— Amartya Sen

If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make a bigger…

— Amartya Sen

There is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women... When women are fully involved, the…

— Kofi Annan

Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female…

— Amartya Sen

My observation is that the bias against female child is deeply ingrained, especially in certain parts of India and that it's not just the…

— Abhinav Shukla

“Fertility is seen as a female ‘problem’; whether discouraged or enforced by the vagaries of political, demographic and cultural decisions, it must be kept…

— Gabrielle Palmer

The women of Odisha will lead the way in women empowerment in India.

— Naveen Patnaik

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

— Amartya Sen

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that…

— Muhammad Yunus

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

— Amartya Sen