Declining Sex Ratio in India

Declining Sex Ratio in India

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  Free Powerpoint Templates Page2 What is Sex Ratio? • It is an index of male - female (im)balance in population. • Sex ratio, in India, is defined as the number of females per 1000 males in the population. Internationally sex ratio is defined as number of males per 100 females. • At the Census 2001, sex ratio of population stood at 933 females per 1000 males a marginal increase from 927 recorded at the 1991 Census
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  WHAT IS SEX SELECTION? Humansex selection is the attempt to control the sex of the offspring to achieve a desired sex.
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  Declining sex-ratio inIndia • National decline from 945 to 927 in the number of girls per 1,000 boys aged 0-6 between 1991 and 2001 ▫ Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, (fewer than 800 girls for every 1,000 boys) ▫ The ratio is also said to be low in certain districts, including the South West District of Delhi, which are "amongst the most prosperous in the country."
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  SEX RATIO Country SexRatio India 933 China 944 USA 1029 Indonesia 1004 Brazil 1025 Pakistan 938 Bangladesh 951 Japan 1041 Russian Fed. 1140 5
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  • 586.46 million. •48.46% of total. • 623.7 million. • 51.54% of total. 6
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  The sex ratioin India has been historically negative or in other words, unfavourable to females. Sex ratio reached its lowest in 1991 but since then has kept rising.
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  Reasons of suchdeclination:  Female Foeticide  Son Prefrence & Daughter Aversion  Post Birth Sex Selection  Social Attitude & Perceptions  Lack of education & Awareness  Demographic  Commercial  Logical
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  , ‘Had theseclinics were available 30 years ago, many of us would never have seen this world!’ As narrated by a literate woman in Village M 9
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  SON PREFERENCE AND DAUGHTERAVERSION Economic progress has not necessarily changed the traditions of gender discrimination - dowry - family name - property - last rites - old-age support • Balance between home chores & office Work. 10
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  SOCIAL ATTITUDES Values attached tothe children by parents Views of Parents Sons are more expensive to bring up than daughters ? No Will you face difficulty in arranging marriage for you daughter compared to son ? Yes Son will take care of you when you are old ? Yes Daughter will take care of you when you are old ? No Do parents avoid spending on daughters as compared to sons ? Yes
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  IMPLICATIONS • By 2020there could be more than 35 million young "surplus males" in China and 25 million in India. Because of : • Practices such as infanticide. • Trafficking ?. • Violence against women and girls.
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   After threedecades of Women in Development and Gender and Development policies the work of redressing gender inequalities has only just begun  Attitudes of people towards a girl child should be changed.  Furthermore, it will help to create the balance in the population.  One thing is clear- the imbalance that has set at the early age-group is difficult to be removed and would remain to haunt the population for a long time to come. Conclusion
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  Recommendations What we cando ? Complete registration of Births and Deaths specially of girls.  Change in mind sets in bringing up of the Girl Child.  Free Education, Transport & Scholarships programs for Girls.  Awareness programs, Street Plays, Promotional Martial, Movies, Video Songs, Signature Campaign Etc.
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  15 Campaign Against Sex SelectiveAbortions  DOWN WITH DISCRIMINATION  SAY “NO” to FEMALE EXTERMINATION  Eliminate Inequality, not Women”.  “Destroy Dowry, not Daughters”.  Daughters are not for slaughter.  Say “NO” to Sex Determination  Say “YES” to Gender Justice
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  Women Achievers ??????MANY MORE ELIMINATEDBEFORE THEY COULD ……….
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  "A son isa son till he takes a wife A daughter's a daughter the rest of her life." 17
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