On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:06, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: [.......] > Why do we kill our daughters? [.......] > explanations, one cultural (the East is more sexist than the West) and > the other economic (women fare better in developed economies) have been > “implicitly assumed”, as Sen says, to account for the lower number of > women. Sen dismisses both explanations—read his paper for reasons—and > lays the blame squarely on gender discrimination, suggesting that > employment, literacy and economic rights, including property rights, are > factors that would help right the wrong.
Sen has a point about gender discrimination (see links below) and the myth that women fare better in developed economies. > dispossessed; live in a hut in arid interior Rajasthan; work like a > farm-horse; are malnourished and barely literate. You have never > experienced maternal love (your father killed your mother in a drunken > fit when you were a child), let alone the milk of human kindness, and > civilization’s little courtesies that we city dwellers take for granted. > In this morphed form, your body and mind have hardened like the land > around you. You are already on edge and you know that you are carrying a > girl. You dread the eyes that will view you with pity and censure when > your daughter is born. You have no food for yourself or your first > daughter. And now another? What are you going to do? That poverty is the sole reason for "killing the girl child" is a myth, albeit a self-assuring reasoning that "such $backward stuff does not happen to people like us", where 'us' is the social strata one belongs to (or aspires to belong to), whereas, research proves that educated Indian women *choose* to abort female fetuses. From, http://www.zeenews.com/news708383.html The women interviewed belonged to various religious and educational backgrounds with some even having advanced degrees and approximately half of them holding jobs. </quote> http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/with-greater-education-and-wealth-come-greater-risks-for-indias-unborn-females/article2032342/ http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/226173.php -- .
