Maternal nutrition in rural Bangladesh
Chowdhury, A.K.M.A.
Tyranny of the household Investigative essays on women' s work: 25-37
1985
Document Number: 404916
The paper presents the findings of an extensive sample survey which show that the women of Bangladesh have traditionally received little additional nutrition in their continuous cycle of pregnancy-lactation-pregnancy. Women of reproductive age, as a group, are therefore the worst sufferers from malnutrition, whether as a result of lean season scarcity or of secular increase in poverty.
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