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Nutrition is a concept essentially linked with access to food, utilisation of food and assimilation and retention through proper health and hygiene. Within this perspective, the present paper looks into the utilisation of food within a household where gender attitudes and self-esteem of 300 rural mothers from two districts of West Bengal were considered. The study looks into the impact of the above, on the nutrition and health security of 425 school going children from same socio-economic status, studying at primary level, in the age group of 5 to 12 years, under the ICDS midday meal scheme. The data was drawn by applying Clinical Nutrition Survey Chart; 24-hr recall method and Food Frequency Questionnaire, health and immunization records and expenditure on education, taking into consideration the gender of the child, birth order, and sex of the sibling. In this SPSS-17 was used for the descriptive statistics, t-test, χ2 for association and odd ratio calculation. It was seen that mothers with higher self-esteem had better gender attitudes at 0.05% level of significance. Further, it was seen that apart from gendered attitudes of the mothers, the cultural ethos related to the birth order of the child and the sex of its siblings are detrimental to the nutrition and health security of the girl child.

Gender and Cultural Aspects of Nutrition and Health – A Study in West Bengal