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India’s missing women
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India’s missing women
"On her arrival in India recently, the words of Gloria Steinem, American feminist and leader of the women’s liberation movement, sounded like bells tolling for all women in today’s modern Indian society. “I came [to India] and what was here a half-a-century ago is still here… and yet there is everything else.” Studying data on the sex ratio in India over 60 years supports her grim observation. In this essay we provide a political economy explanation for the persistence of gender inequality in Indian society over the long run."
"The GII captures the loss in achievement within a country due to gender inequality and is based on measures of health, labour force participation and empowerment. In the Human Development Report, 2012, India performs more poorly than neighbouring Pakistan in the GII despite having a higher per capita income and a democratic government. More strikingly, it is ranked 133rd out of 146 countries and even lags behind war-torn countries such as Iraq and Sudan."
"In a nutshell, the competitive electoral process in Indian democracy with or without women’s reservation will fail to deliver policies that are not gender-biased. In the presence of missing women, whose consent cannot be taken into account in the electoral process, democracy will fail to deliver policies that promote women’s welfare (especially in those situations where there is a divergence in opinion between men and women). India can begin to address this disaster by first recognising that an adverse gender ratio is a human rights problem which is an outcome of the sustained, gross neglect of women. And the solution for this lies outside the competitive democratic system."
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-missing-women/article5670801.ece?homepage=true
-> Outside the competitive democratic system! instead of beating around the bush, why can't they simply say it's a cultural/social issue. OTOH, if sex ratio in India over 60 years is the same, how are we any worse than 60 years ago?
"The GII captures the loss in achievement within a country due to gender inequality and is based on measures of health, labour force participation and empowerment. In the Human Development Report, 2012, India performs more poorly than neighbouring Pakistan in the GII despite having a higher per capita income and a democratic government. More strikingly, it is ranked 133rd out of 146 countries and even lags behind war-torn countries such as Iraq and Sudan."
"In a nutshell, the competitive electoral process in Indian democracy with or without women’s reservation will fail to deliver policies that are not gender-biased. In the presence of missing women, whose consent cannot be taken into account in the electoral process, democracy will fail to deliver policies that promote women’s welfare (especially in those situations where there is a divergence in opinion between men and women). India can begin to address this disaster by first recognising that an adverse gender ratio is a human rights problem which is an outcome of the sustained, gross neglect of women. And the solution for this lies outside the competitive democratic system."
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/indias-missing-women/article5670801.ece?homepage=true
-> Outside the competitive democratic system! instead of beating around the bush, why can't they simply say it's a cultural/social issue. OTOH, if sex ratio in India over 60 years is the same, how are we any worse than 60 years ago?
confuzzled dude- Posts : 10205
Join date : 2011-05-08
Re: India’s missing women
China has the opposite problem. Win win for both countries, synthesis and genetics if they sign an agreement.
Hellsangel- Posts : 14721
Join date : 2011-04-28
Re: India’s missing women
Hellsangel wrote:China has the opposite problem. Win win for both countries, synthesis and genetics if they sign an agreement.
no they don't. women just choose to remain single. don't believe the media hype. they have the same problem india has.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/110615/china-and-the-worst-ever-man-made-gender-gap
MaxEntropy_Man- Posts : 14702
Join date : 2011-04-28
Re: India’s missing women
Hellsangel wrote:China has the opposite problem. Win win for both countries, synthesis and genetics if they sign an agreement.
This site has the opposite problem. There are way more women than men and these women are molesting men willy nilly.
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