Gendercide Watch: Female Infanticide - 0 views
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female infanticide reflects the low status accorded to women in most parts of the world
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that "Sons are called upon to provide the income; they are the ones who do most of the work in the fields.
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In many cases, of course, the women are not independent agents but merely victims of a dominant family ideology based on preference for male children."
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Bombay in 1984 on abortions after prenatal sex determination stated that 7,999 out of 8,000 of the aborted fetuses were females.
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Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh [states], it is usual for girls and women to eat less than men and boys and to have their meal after the men and boys had finished eating.
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Indian state governments have sometimes taken measures to diminish the slaughter of infant girls and abortions of female fetuses.
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f one parent undergoes sterilization, the government will give the family [U.S.] \\$160 in aid per child.
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The money will be paid in instalments as the girl goes through school. She will also get a small gold ring and on her 20th birthday, a lump sum of $650 to serve as her dowry or defray the expenses of higher education. Four thousand families enrolled in the first year," with 6,000 to 8,000 expected to join annually (as of 1994