Gendercide: Elimination of One Sex

In this essay, the author

• Describes gendercide as the elimination of one sex through selective abortion, infanticide, neglecting and abuse. the united nations estimates that as many as two hundred million girls are missing in the world today.
• Explains that china and india are the most populated countries in the world, followed by nepal and vietnam for gender selection practice. pakistan and bangladesh use medical technology to determine the sex of the unborn child.
• Explains that the natural predominance in the number of males is explained by the fact that they are more susceptible to disease early in life.
• Explains that people practicing gendercide are using couple methods to ensure the success of their preference.
• Explains that most women believe that boys and girls are equal. they blame external factors that are forcing them to abandon their baby girls.
• Explains that gendercide is illegal in canada, but there are sex preferences in some ethnic communities.
• Explains that in china and india peoples tend to prefer boys over girls. they can't afford to feed someone who's not fully contributing to the community.
• Explains that in some countries, parents need to give a dowry when their daughter marries another man, which affects the preference of having.
• Explains the one-child policy in china, which restricts couples from having more than one child. it is enforced by the family planning police, a military order.
• Explains that in china, there are tens of millions more males than females living, which means that they will never find a wife inside the country.
• Explains that women's bare branches are becoming a huge problem, as single men who are struggling to get married find undesirable ways of getting one. abduction, sexual assault, and human trafficking have also increased.
• Explains that technology has contributed to sex ratio imbalance in the way that we can now predict the gender of the baby before he is even born.
• Explains that economic development is not eliminating the problem completely, but it certainly helps to slow it down.
• Argues that preventing gendercide has a lot to do with changing the way people think. the importance of women in these societies needs to be increased.
• Explains that women could benefit from change in education, which plays a role in the gender preference. they can get respectable jobs and are less financially dependent.
• Opines that a change in tradition does not happen overnight, but there are examples where values have been reversed overtime. south korea made efforts to change attitudes toward sex preference and over the last decades, they managed to reverse the imbalance
• Explains that men of the upper scale classes will find a partner easier than the one in the poor classes. rich people across all societies do not have to struggle too much to get married.
• Opines that if the first child is a boy and the gender preference is met, it seems less of an issue to have an infant girl. if first children are girls, the pressure is bigger; therefore you have more chances of practicing gender selection.