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Mapa Mental por RoryFlynn2, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por RoryFlynn2
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What are the causes and impacts of
changing gender structures?
- India's missing millions
- India's population approaching 1 billion
- 2nd most populous after China
- 2nd most populous after China
- 1999 - Estimated 936 female per 1000 male
- One of the lowest ratios in the world
- Saudi Arabia 804: 1000
- Britain 1036: 1000
- Saudi Arabia 804: 1000
- Statistically unusual -
on average more men
than women die in India
- One of the lowest ratios in the world
- India would need 32.9 million more
women to meet the world average of
1002: 1000
- Male children preferred
- Girls often aborted but in
few places. It is otherwise
illegal
- Girl's life expectancy
much lower than boy's
after birth
- Likely due to girls
receiving less food
and less care than
boys
- Girls breastfed for shorter periods of time
- Girls receive
fewer medical
consultations
- Girls are emitted
to hospital later
than boys. If not
at all
- Likely due to girls
receiving less food
and less care than
boys
- Within North India women are disadvantaged
- Less freedom and choice
- Less rights to inheritance and ownership
- Less access to
knowledge and
expression of opinions in
public via voting
- Less decision making power within the family
- Less freedom and choice
- Girls often aborted but in
few places. It is otherwise
illegal
- Culture
- Women forbidden to marry
within their own villages in
Northern Indo-gangetic Plain
- Forced to leave parents at an early age
- Cut off emotionally and economically
- Cut off emotionally and economically
- Forced to leave parents at an early age
- Female employment
- Paid works helps raise
female status + gives
bargaining power
- Working mothers can save money
- Sons not
necessarily
required to look
after mothers
financially
- Sons not
necessarily
required to look
after mothers
financially
- Paid works helps raise
female status + gives
bargaining power
- Women forbidden to marry
within their own villages in
Northern Indo-gangetic Plain
- Education
- Statistically lower rate
of child mortality with
increase in female
literacy
- Better educated women
less likely to want boys
- More likely to utilise locally available medical facilities
- Increases child life expectancy
- Increases child life expectancy
- More likely to utilise locally available medical facilities
- Statistically lower rate
of child mortality with
increase in female
literacy
- Lower income families and
lower casts less likely to
discriminate against women
- Also South India not as bad as North
- Also South India not as bad as North
- India's population approaching 1 billion
- China's 1 child policy
- Application required for first child
- Benefits given for only having 1 child
- If 2nd child is had
benefits are taken away
and heavily fined
- If 2nd child is had
benefits are taken away
and heavily fined
- Planned to last 100 years
- Easier to have more children in rural areas
- 'Nanny police' in urban areas
- 'Nanny police' in urban areas
- Gender imbalance - 1:3 ratio
- 'Little emperor syndrome'
- single male children
become spoiled,
overweight and greedy
- single male children
become spoiled,
overweight and greedy
- Has resulted in a shift in dependency
- More dependent elderly than young
- More dependent elderly than young
- Increased divorce rate
- Sex-selective abortions
- Lots of girls aborted
- Government is trying to stop this
- Government is trying to stop this
- Lots of girls aborted
- 'Little emperor syndrome'
- Application required for first child
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