Attitude Towards Females Foeticide: Does It influence the Survival Status of Female Children? (A Case of Punjab)

Abstract

Long back in 1971, the committee on the status of women in India was appointed by the Government of India to undertake a comprehensive examination of all the questions relating to the rights and status of women in the context of changing social and economic conditions in the country and new problems relating to the advancement of women. However, care for the girl child the message aimed to improve the low status of women in society when compared to men gained momentum recently. The constitution of India makes no distinction between the sexes, and its preamble guarantees, to secure to all its citizens justice, social, economic and political, liberty of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship, equality of status and of opportunity etc. But this equality has not been very evident in practice and the social and economic status of women has not been on
par with that of men. Moreover the dynamics of social change and development had adversely affected a large section of women, particularly among the poor, and had created new imbalances and disparities.