Alarming drop in the female ratio

The topic of the thread may kindly be read as 'Alarming drop in the female ratio'.

Unfortunately, either there is no option to edit the topic of the thread or I could not locate the same.
 
gauri said:
our ‘shining' india is still very much gender biased.

No matter what progress india has made, it is very much a so called "purush pradhaan desh" (exact word told to me by a man!)

it is tragically ironic that the one who creates life is herself denied the right to be born

a un report: http://www.oneindia.com/feature/no-place-girls-rising-india-as-child-sex-ratio-1488535.html
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beta, to some extend you are right, but things are changing slowly, there are people who give more importance to daughter than son,
 
Females has to blame themselves for some part of it. In most of the cases its female member of the family who don't want a girl child. May be its because they don't want girl child to go through the suffering they had gone through. Life is much easier for female now than a couple of decades ago.
 
Let's not pinpoint female only. Males are also responsible. Moreover, it's a failure of society as a whole. Stereotypes in the society and dowry demand, just to the name a few.
 
akshaymalik84 said:
Females has to blame themselves for some part of it. In most of the cases its female member of the family who don't want a girl child. May be its because they don't want girl child to go through the suffering they had gone through. Life is much easier for female now than a couple of decades ago.
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Lets Stop the Blame Game!
I am not debating here men are to blame more then women! Its all of us in the society that have lead to this stage.

I agree to all of the above ! The part of their denial is they don't want her to face the same things but also they don't want themselves to be blamed to producing a girl child! What an irony.

We worship many female Goddesses at various festivals however never feel a little bit of kind to the women living in our home!

The times are changing and there are people who want a girl child over son but the count is very few otherwise the figures wont be as bad.
As the report suggest, this is a far more serious concern then it sounds. Girls are homemakers, they shape the civilisation.Any society with a fewer no. of girls ended up limited and aggressive because love decreased in such a society.


What can we do to improve it - Educated people, make them aware of the things they see otherwise. Motivate people in our surrounds to send their daughters to school. This is obviously if the poor girl has made it to the world.

If you educate your daughter, you educate two families”. It is very true because educating a man is only educate a person whereas educating a women is educating whole family.
 
amitbudhwar said:
Let's not pinpoint female only. Males are also responsible. Moreover, it's a failure of society as a whole. Stereotypes in the society and dowry demand, just to the name a few.
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I am not pinpointing or blaming anyone, just highlighting the fact that many people ignore. Everyone knows about social and educational reasons of less sex ratio but there is more to it like rise of infertility in Indian couples or may be its more Y chromosomes in Indian males. But we can only control what we know of and in case of our country, conventional education, govt. schemes and laws doesn't seems to help much. The child sex ration has increased to 109 in year 2011 from 104 in year 1981 in favour of males.
 
Every other day, one gets to read in the newspaper that a clinic running a sex determination racket is busted in some town or the other.

It is an irony that those who do it (doctors) and those who generally get it done (patients/beneficiaries) are both educated and more often than not come from well to do backgrounds/families.

Hence, it would be wrong to say that this evil can only be uprooted through education and literacy. There needs to be change in the mindset of the people.

At a personal level, I see so many among my friends and family who are having a two-son family. Nothing wrong if natural. However, this all makes one wonder if God has suddenly by chance stopped the mingling of the X chromosome with another X chromosome.

Agreed that even in today's times girls are seen more as a liability (by the parents) and commodity (by the film, fashion and advertising media). However, at the same time, one cannot ignore the present day scenario where girls have proved themselves to be equal if not ahead of boys. Examples like Sania Nehwal, IAS topper Tina Dabi, the three female (fighter) pilots who recently graduated from the AFA, etc.

All this requires a change in the mindset of the family and also of the society. The family as a unit of the society has to play a key role in changing the outlook of society by establishing an informal system of checks and balances to contain and admonish any adverse issue/incident affecting the girl or the girl child in the society.

Girls not only have to survive (both in the womb and the outside world), but also they have to flourish (or more aptly take wings) if the society has to flourish. To ensure the same, we have to raise our voice if we see anything suspicious or untoward happening in our vicinity or surroundings.
 
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