1. Worsening of Female to Male Ratio in India PRESENTED BY: PRADEEP SAINI PRANJALI AGRAWAL PRATEEK JAIN PREETI SINGH PRIYANKA MITTAL
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3. Secondary - ratio is the ratio at time of birth
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5. Contd… Even as the latest UNDP Report ranks India 119 in the Human Development Index, in the Gender Inequality Index, India ranks 122 at 0.748. A survey conducted by the United Nations in 2007 revealed that over 2,000 unborn girls are aborted every day in India While we boast that we have a female President in PratibhaPatil and a female leader of the ruling coalition in the Parliament in Sonia Gandhi - while we celebrate the staggering achievements of KalpanaChawla, Sunita Williams, IndraNooyi, Kiran M. Shaw and SaniaMirza - we all fail to undo the hypocrisy of sex selection in India.
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7. Amazed??? According to the most recent estimates, China and India account for nearly 80 per cent of all ‘missing women’ in the world.”
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9. Practice of dowry - Indian wedding customs mean that girls are often seen as a huge cost with very little returns, partly because the practice of demanding dowries remains the norm, despite being illegal.
12. Contd… A study was conducted by SreevidyaSubramoney & Prakash C. Gupta, Mumbai. The available data demonstrate ultrasound misuse as a major culprit. The data revealed lower sex ratios among women accessing private hospitals compared to those accessing government hospitals (780 vs 872).
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14. Contd… There may be psychological implications for both the parents and child if the procedure does not produce a child of the desired sex. Furthermore, problems may also arise if the gender-related expectations of the parents are not subsequently fulfilled by the child. However, it may be the case that any child will fail to fulfill particular parental expectations.
15. Steps taken by government The Indian government banned sex-determination tests at national level in 1994 with the Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act. The new legislation authorised only government- registered clinics and laboratories to utilise prenatal diagnostic procedures that could be used to find out the sex of the foetus. The Act further rejected the use of prenatal diagnostic procedures unless there is a heightened possibility that the foetus suffers from a harmful condition or genetic disease. However, the law has by far proved ineffectual. The law’s ineffectiveness is also proved by the reports that claim Indian women in the UK come to India to abort their female foetus to have more boys. Government schemes like “Laadli” support single girl child
16. Solution to the problem The problem has to be tackled through women’s education and empowerment including the right to property and land rights. Women should also be socialized from early childhood to consider themselves equal to men. They should be encouraged to assume all those responsibilities, which are normally considered to belong to the male domain. This would have a positive influence on future generations, as today’s girls would be tomorrow’s mothers, as well as, mothers-in-law.
17. Contd… Central/state governments should popularize schemes in operation in the states through economic benefits that could accrue to those families having a girl child, similar to the Shagan scheme launched by the Government of Punjab, Apni beti apna dhan, Balika samriddhi yojana. Multimedia campaigns at the National and state levels should be launched against female foeticide to create awareness to curb the problem and synergize government initiatives to promote women-oriented programmes
18. CONCLUSION In a Nation where women are considered the symbol of strength and purity and are worshipped , we should be reminded of our values and the fact that in order to be a developed nation we have to develop the woman power equally.
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