Female feticide is one of the biggest challenges that India is facing today in terms of gender. It has become a significant social phenomenon. It transcends all barriers of caste‚ class and community and even the north-south dichotomy. The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap report for the year 2007 has shown India at a dismal 120th position. The gender gap report looks at the disparities in terms of health‚ education‚ economic status and political participation between men and women
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The act of aborting or terminating a foetus while it’s still in the womb‚ because it is female‚ is known as female foeticide. This can be done after determining the sex of the child before it’s born‚ through ultrasound scans. Although‚ sex determination in India is illegal‚ the practice is rampant and has become a multi-million dollar industry. This process began in the early 1990s when ultrasound techniques gained widespread use in India. There was a tendency for families to continuously produce
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of our society‚ a gender inequality exists in receiving education which is enacted to the females. This unwanted practice is continuing still in our society and hinders the progress of our nation. In our country‚ because of some old superstitions and customs‚ girls are deprived from many facilities which are cashed in on by males. Education is one of those. The parents think not to invest money to their female children rather than to the males. And that’s why; women of our country still can’t lead
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Monday for the baby boy‚ and Friday for the girl. That’s no nursery rhyme but baby talk of the most dangerous kind. Doctors carrying out sex determination tests are using everyday language and symbols to divulge the gender of the baby to wealthy families. The results are shared mostly on emails‚ and are fuelling a business worth Rs 1‚500 crore. This is particularly worrying for a state like Maharashtra which loses 4.5 lakh girls every 10 years‚ 50‚000 every year and 148 every day. This and
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CAUSES OF FEMALE FOETICIDE – WHY DO THEY DO THIS? Female foeticide is a pressing issue – which calls to be addressed at once. However‚ to get to the root of this issue‚ it is essential to understand the causes behind it. In India‚ however‚ there isn’t actually a need to investigate into the problem much. We don’t need to delve into any lengthy and detailed investigation or case study. The issue lies right on top‚ in front of our eyes – in fact‚ it is a very part of our lives. One of the simplest
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of female education and considers the pathways through which women’s schooling leads to social gains. Female deprivation is particularly acute in the developing countries with high levels of poverty‚ though in affluent nations women also suffer low status due to conservative attitudes. The most dramatic and telling statistic of women’s status is the sex-ratio in the population‚ that is‚ the number of females per 100 males. It is a well-known fact that life-expectancy at birth favours females. This
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Female vs. Male Friendships Male and female friendships are different and alike in many ways. They differ in how men and women can relate to each other both physically and emotionally. Men and women also differ in the communication aspect. In both friendships‚ there is a certain level of competitiveness‚ and the friends obviously will have the same interest in common. Friendships will differ from person to person because of the different personalities‚ but there will be the same likes and differences
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Training the Female Athlete In this Podcast‚ Peter Melanson interviews Diane Vives – director of Vives Training Systems in Austin‚ Texas‚ on training female athletes. Peter asks Diane a series of questions in regards to female athletes versus male athletes on how to train better‚ the differences between training‚ and the types of injuries caused from the training between men and women athletes. Diane answers with questions with research and studies that supports her theories and reasoning’s to
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friends vs. Female Friends 11/25/11 Eng Com I Males vs. Females Most people have friends. Depending on your gender you may have more female friends or you may have more male friends. I myself have an equal amount of male friends and female friends. Having both gender of friends‚ is fun. Male’s offers advice that females can’t and females offer advice that males can’t. Males and females are alike and different. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast male and female friends .I’m
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under stress. In females‚ this hormone plays a crucial role during pregnancy where it increases the production of fetal lung surfactant. Dopamine- is a hormone in our bodies that functions as a neurotransmitter. In both male and female it is responsible for our physical movement‚ sexual desire‚ motivation .the function is similar in both male and female but abnormal levels of dopamine have a greater effect in males than in females. Estrogen-this hormone is very important in females and is responsible
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