India's+Missing+Girls,+K&A

=India's Missing Girls= By: Anna Rafalko and Kayla Staunton

THESIS:
Most people believe that India should value women more, especially with their cultural views of men being more important than women.

**TIMELINE**

 * 1974- All India Institute of Medical Sciences came out with "beneficial" sex- determination tests
 * 1980- Sex ratio starts to decline drastically
 * 1980s- Newspapers were advertising ultrasound sex determination
 * 1994- Pre-Natal Determination Test Act outlawed sex-selective abortion
 * 2010- National Crime Records Bureau (//2010 Crime in India//) statistics show 8,391 dowry-related deaths
 * 2011- India ranked fourth most dangerous country for women
 * 2011- Census taken that found 7.1 million fewer girls than boys under the age of six
 * 2012- World Bank reports the World Developement Report on Gender Equality and Development

SUMMARY
Because of new technological advances, the number of females in Asian countries is rapidly decreasing. The traditional desire for male children over females has become an increasing wish among Indian families, so much so that they are willing to take every risk to get what they want. The solution to this is sex-determined tests and termination of female fetuses, or abortion. Because of this newfound idea of pre-determined sex tests, parents are willing to abort their child if they find out that it is a girl. This now has become a huge problem within India because Indian families are having raging disputes, there is a population imbalance between genders, and there are problems within the Indian government.



//http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6629906935499475712////---A short video explaining some statistics about the missing girls of India.//

WHAT DID YOU LEARN?
Answer the following questions on a seperate piece of paper.
 * 1) What year did the sex ratio start to decline?
 * 2) From the summary above, what are three problems the gendercide has caused?
 * 3) In 2001, how many fewer girls were found within the census?
 * 4) What do you believe should be done to help this problem?
 * 5) What else would you like to learn about India and the ongoing gendercide within the country?