Abstract : India has a wide range of people living there. It has a relatively high birth rate that is going down, and its economy is growing unevenly, with big differences between social groups, ages, and levels of wealth (Agnihotri, 1995; Dyson & Moore, 1983). There are many differences between the states in the North and the states in the South. The north has fewer people who can read and write and a higher level of agricultural development. The south, on the other hand, has more people who can read and write and better health facilities. The death rates for babies, kids, and women are lower in the southern states, as are the birth rates. On the other hand, infant, child, and female death and birth rates are much higher in the northern states (Jeffery and Jeffery 1997; Guilmoto and Rajan 2001). Several things have led to fewer babies being born in India. Among them are the wide availability of birth control, the overall drop in the infant mortality rate, and a big rise in the average age of a woman when she gets married, especially in the south (Hatti and Ohlsson 1984 and 1985; Srinivasan 1995). But it's very worrying that the tradition of favouring sons and the fact that there are more men than women in the population are still going strong. India is one of the places where men are the most common. In fact, the number of women living in India has been going down steadily since the beginning of the 20th century, according to census reports
Keywords : Sex, Gender, Discrimination, India.
Cite : Yadav, P. (2022). Sex Ratio Discrimination- The Indian Case (1st ed., p. 130). Noble Science Press. https://doi.org/10.52458/9789391842673.nsp2022.eb.asu.ch.16
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