Missing Girls

R.L. Bhat and Namita Sharma
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R.L. Bhat: R.L. Bhat is Professor and Head, Postgraduate Department of Economics, University of Jammu, Jammu 180 006. E-mail: rl_bhat@rediffmail.com.
Namita Sharma: Namita Sharma is Research Scholar, Postgraduate Department of Economics, University of Jammu, Jammu 180 006. E-mail: namita_s2001@yahoo.com.

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2006, vol. 13, issue 3, 351-374

Abstract: A study of the declining sex ratio in India particularly in the 0 to 6 age group raises one very pertinent question: Where have all the girls gone? The phenomenon has become particularly disturbing in some northern states of India. It appears that the growth in incomes and education of women, variables that would grant women an equal status in society, have actually worked in a reverse direction in states like Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Discrimination against females is engineered even before birth through female foeticide. It seems that education and incomes, which were supposed to result in the emancipation of women, have actually increased, not lowered, the bias in favour of the male child.

Date: 2006
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