Abstract : In an important article from 1990, Amartya Sen said that millions of women were missing from the population counts of many countries, especially in Asia. He also brought up the alarming fact that the sex ratio for female children in China, India, and South Korea is getting worse, even though the overall sex ratio for women in those countries has slightly improved. Sen said that you could figure out how many women are missing from a population by figuring out how many extra women would have lived in that society. This would have been true if the ratio of women to men was the same as in other parts of the world where care for both sexes is the same. Given that the ratio of women to men is only 0.94 in South Asia, West Asia, and China, which shows a deficit of 6%, he guessed that since the ratio is about 1.05 in countries where women and men get the same care, the real deficit is about 11% of their women. These numbers tell "in a quiet way a terrible story of how inequality and neglect cause more women to die than they should" (Sen, 1990). In India, the Census of 2001 shows that the gap between the number of girls and boys is getting bigger. This trend has been going on since 1901. This is most noticeable in children ages 0 to 6, which shows how big the problem is and how it will affect society and the economy in the long run.
Keywords : Gender, Problems, India, Inequality.
Cite : Singh, S. B. (2022). Gender Inequality & Problems In India (1st ed., p. 124). Noble Science Press. https://doi.org/10.52458/9789391842673.nsp2022.eb.asu.ch.15
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