female foeticide/ infanticide The term female foeticide means killing the female foetus in the mother’s womb. How cruel? The practice has been followed in India for ages‚ a country that once described its women as godessess. For this reason‚ Indian women will soon get extinct. Surprised? The most active part is being played by the women themselves -- why? Just for the mere want of a boy‚ mothers don’t feel bad in strangulating their daughters in their wombs. Can anyone be more cruel? In India‚ sex
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Female infanticide..... Female foeticide is the illegal practice of killing a foetus which is determined as a female. Female foeticide is prevalent in our country as a major social evil. The patriarchal social structure of India gives a secondary position to women. Social belief goes that the family runs through a male and hence the birth of a male child in the family is imminent to the carrying forward of its generation. Social discrimination and the preference for sons have given
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Women are murdered all over the world. But in India a most brutal form of killing females takes place regularly‚ even before they have the opportunity to be born. Female feticide--the selective abortion of female fetuses--is killing upwards of one million females in India annually with far-ranging and tragic consequences. In some areas‚ the sex ratio of females to males has dropped to less than 8000:1000. Females not only face inequality in this culture‚ they are even denied the right to be born
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Female Foeticide in India What is female foeticide? The act of aborting or terminating a foetus while it’s still in the womb‚ because it is female‚ is known as female foeticide. This can be done after determining the sex of the child before it’s born‚ through ultrasound scans. Although‚ sex determination in India is illegal‚ the practice is rampant and has become a multi-million dollar industry. Coupled with prospective parents desperate for a boy child‚ and physicians who are carrying out these
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Changes in consumer behaviour and their effect on the luxury accessory business. Sandra Mittica Degree Thesis International Business 2012 DEGREE THESIS Arcada Degree Programme: Identification number: Author: Title: Supervisor (Arcada): Commissioned by: Abstract: This research was designed to find out whether changes in consumer behaviour in recent years have had an effect on the sales of luxury branded accessories. This research is significant to luxury brands and in particular those selling
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Everyday females are viewed by the media‚ whether in a work place‚ television ads‚ and magazines. Women tend to judge themselves on how they look just to make sure there keeping up with what society see as an idyllic woman‚ when women always subjected to the idea that they have to keep an unattainable body image just to keep up with media‚ it starts to teach women that they if they do not have the right look they cannot be seen as a beautiful woman. They can start feel as if they do not add up to
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A diverse array of traditional‚ religious‚ and cultural customs is practiced cross-culturally throughout the world. Female circumcision‚ also known as Female genital mutilation‚ or female genital cutting is a custom that has sparked controversy among many people belonging to other cultures not accustomed to the practice. They have presented the question of whether female circumcision is a practice that should be advocated or even allowed at all. My view is that the notion of basic human rights and
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According to the studies of Kelleher and Kelleher (1998)‚ they were able to discover that the methods behind a female serial killer was based on motivation. They established a theory based on the limitations defined by serial killers; which often excluded women as serial killers. Based on the findings of Farrell‚ 2006; Jensen‚ 2001; Mann‚ 1996; Pollock‚ Mulllings‚ & Crouch‚ 2006; Schurman-Kauflin‚ 2000; Scott‚ 2005‚ they were able to conclude that women have the ability‚ to be sensitive‚ rather than
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Female Genital Mutilation By: Kasey Jordana Female genital mutilation is cutting of the female genitals and it was considered a right of passage in Asia‚ Africa‚ and the Middle East. It’s a reflection of inequality between sexes and it is discrimination against women. Most of the time it is done on minors from age infancy to 15 and it is considered violation of rights of children. The procedure violates a persons rights to health because it can hurt you physically or it can even lead
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The life of a physician is not for the weak. Most physicians face a stressful‚ hectic work environment and long blocks of time on the job. In addition‚ female doctors face stressors related to their gender and their expected role in society and in their own families. A career in medicine is damaging to the mental health of female physicians‚ who struggle with sex-based discrimination‚ dual-role stress‚ and difficulty building and maintaining relationships. These facets of practicing medicine
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