7. Original Scientific Paper Sex differences of Nutritional status among preschool children in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India by C. Bhattacherjee and S. Biswas Abstract Gender discrimination is a burning issue for quite a long time. The present research is an attempt to find gender equity among pre-school children (below 6 yrs) of 2nd most populated district of India (Census 2011) i.e. North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. 1000 children i.e. 500 of each sex were selected by multistage sampling, and anthropometric measurements like height-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-age, arm circumference-forage, were taken along with some cultural information to observe whether any sort of discrimination exists between children of both sexes and if parents possess any differentiating psychology regarding gender of children. It was found that no significant difference exists among boys and girls in respect of health status. Beside this, other caring facilities also showed the same feature. In every case the Chi-square statistics proved that there is no significant difference between bays and girls regarding caring facilities and nutritional status at 0.05 significance level. A simple conclusion can be drawn from the study that unlike other studies gender equity exists among the reference population of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Download Complete Article