Save the Children’s new report "An Equal Start - Why Gender Equality Matters for Child Survival and Maternal Health" focuses on the impact of gender discrimination on child survival, revealing the human, economic and development costs of gender discrimination and offering four snapshots of gender discrimination (foeticide and infanticide, early pregnancy, lack of household decision-making power, discriminatory health services) and its impact.

The report also identifies three priorities for intervention: addressing social, cultural & legal norms; building equitable health services; and creating opportunities for girls and women to engage as agents in their own lives.

See http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/An_Equal_Start_low_res.pdf