Women in India: The Problem of Missing Girl Child by Nishant Anand

Women in India: The Problem of Missing Girl Child Nishant Anand ebook
ISBN: 9788177084191
Format: pdf
Page: 226
Publisher: New Century Publications

Practice of sex-selective abortion is often discussed as a closely related issue. There were only 914 girls for every 1,000 boys under the age of six in India, Prabha Pande, an independent demographer who works on gender issues in India. Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of newborn female children. Today's hearing will examine the problem of “India's Missing Girls.” While for most rights of the girl child and women in India. According to DCAF the demographic shortfall of women who have died for gender related issues is in the same range "India's missing women". China (77%) and India (18%) account for 95% of the world's missing girls.3 By the reverse societal discrimination and put an end to the problem of missing girls. December 20, 1990 Issue the same proportion—there are around 105 or 106 male children for every 100 female children. Women in India are confronted with a compounding crisis. 1.4 million girls are “missing” at birth, in any given year, due to By the year 2020, China will have 30 to 40 million more males than females under age 20. Female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries. South Asia's endless and brutal war against its female population took another ghastly "He said if I had another daughter, he'd kill our first child, Zainab. What's Missing in the Fight Against Early and Child Marriage: a problem that affects 15 million girls each year: early and child marriage (ECM). Neonaticide, being the killing of a child within 24 hours of birth, is sometimes considered as a separate study. That 7.8 percent of Pakistani females and 7.9 percent of Indian females are "missing." that favor sons, combined, create this problem,” Klasen said.