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Sex Ratios and Gender Biased Sex Selection: History, Debates and Future Directions.

India
Publisher UN Women
2014
English
UN Women

Abstract

This report consists of an overview of the secondary literature on the subject of gender biased sex selection in the Indian context. Its aim is to provide a road map for what has become an extremely wide ranging field of research, and in doing so, to indicate future directions for fruitful inquiry. The report begins by adopting a historical perspective, given that the problem of ‘missing women’, a phrase coined by Amartya Sen in 1990, is by no means new.

  • Abortion
  • Declining Sex Ratio
  • Girl Child
  • India

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https://india.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/SexRatiosandGBSS.pdf

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Sex_Ratios_and_Gender_Biased_Sex_Selection.pdf
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