5.What is “gendercide” and how can it be overcome? Unnatural selection Television‚the Internet‚ the printed media‚ radio - there are many ways how to know what is happening in the world.Some information influent us more‚ some less because people usually like choosing attractive ‚ shocking and catastrophic topics and they do not pay sufficient attention to the real problems.The topic that I want to write about in this work is‚ in my opinion‚ one of the most insoluble social problems in the
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David Phillips Ms. Captein Pre-AP World History 4 November 2014 Girls‚ Gandhi‚ and Gendercide Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most influential people of the 20th Century‚ and impacted human history in a profound way. As a Hindu‚ he believed in the sacred nature of the cow and explained‚ “Cow protection…is not mere protection of the cow. It means protection of what lives and is helpless and weak in the world”; however‚ while protection of the cow has been a fundamental part of most of India’s beliefs
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declared “unable to survive”‚ stuffed into a plastic bag and left for dead in the corner of a toilet cubicle.In India‚ nearly a million baby girls are aborted each year. In fact‚ it’s not just an Asian phenomenon — female foeticide’ In other words‚ gendercide‚ is taking place worldwide. Social conditions‚ economic reality‚ even the prospect of being able to provide adequate long-term care—all of these factors contribute to the decision to abort girls. A study estimated that 160‚000‚000 females are
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GENDERCIDE IN INDIA SOCIAL SCIENCE 210 LYDIA SIAPARDANI 5-30-2014 Is sex-selection an action of Gendercide? What is Gendercide? • The term used for the first time by the feminist Mary Ann Warren in her book “Gendercide: The Implication of Sex Selection”‚ in 1985 • It is an analogy with the word Genocide • It is defined as the systematic mass killing by any means of members of specific sex • Main victims are usually women and minorities What Happens in India • Gendercide in India is a practice
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that exposes the issue of gendercide‚ "the systematic elimination of a gender group‚ usually females" (It’s a Girl! Discussion + Action Guide)‚ particularly in India and China due to the enormous size of their population. The documentary was broken into two parts: the first explained the matter in India and the second part was in China. In India the main issue was the dowry system while in China it was the one child policy; these two issues contribute to the cause of gendercide. The film showed a great
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against the Jews was evident during particular phases of the campaign of extermination. It nonetheless has its harbinger in the mass detentions of males during the earlier (1933-41) period of Nazi rule. As a campaign of full-blown mass execution‚ the gendercide against Jewish males marked an important‚ if temporary‚ "onset phase" of the holocaust in the occupied eastern territories (including‚ after August 1941‚ the Balkans). Gendercidal strategies against women were evident at later stages‚ both in mass
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The article “Gendercide: The War on Baby Girls Winds Down” by The Economist iterates how past trends in sex-selective fertility have recently changed to produce a more equal sex ratio at birth in countries including South Korea‚ China‚ Pakistan‚ Vietnam‚ and South Caucasus due to ideological changes (Gendercide: The war on baby girls winds down‚ 2017). Even though these changes are leading to a more natural sex ratio‚ decades of sex-selective fertility have lasting impacts on population aging and
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Gendercide Why girls in India are being killed Traditions and cultural beliefs in India are resulting in the slaughter of girls‚ often before they are even born. According to the official statistics‚ in the past 20 years ten million female foetuses have been aborted‚ with the boy to girl ratio now being at about 1000 to 900. Although determining a foetus’s sex is illegal‚ let alone abortion or even the killing of a young girl‚ several clinics across the country surreptitiously agree to reveal
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socially constructed gender roles. 2. Gendercide is the systematic killing of members of a specific sex. The word refers to the rising problem occurring in countries like China where girl babies are said to be “useless” and where it is said that “you cannot get by without a son.” It came along with China’s one-child only policy. It is a certain type of pressure caused by gender disparities throughout cultures across the world. Many think of gendercide as an issue that is caused by “backward thinking”
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is one recognised in almost any country of the world‚ and which‚ like the Holocaust‚ calls for explanation‚ in this case‚ the validation of the theory that the Great European Witch Hunts‚ of the 14th to 17th century‚ were all a case of ’gendercide’. Gendercide is the term used to refer to forms of systematic killing of members of a specific sex‚ males or females‚ and the controversy around this concept‚ questions whether or not the witch “hunts were sex specific”‚ specifically aiming at the victimised
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