disheartening to see gender bias in health nutrition and employment explain
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Explanation:
Gender Impact On Health
Change cannot be forced at personal level; therefore, laws are enacted in the society. All we can do is to attempt to change the factors that dictate such a choice, by improving the workable social status accorded to our daughters, through assured schooling, healthcare, employment opportunities, and substantive legal equality. But even as we do this, we would need to continue to monitor and punish medical personnel who seek to thrive on one of the most pernicious forms of hate crimes known to modern Indian society - the hate crime called female feticide.
The child sex ratio shows a negative trend and causes serious concern to anthropologists, population scientists, policy makers and planners. Low sex ratio trend in India is due to large scale practice of female feticide. Female feticide or sex selective abortion is the elimination of the female fetus in the womb itself. The decline in child sex ratio may be due to different factors such as neglect of female children resulting in their higher mortality at younger ages, female infanticide and female feticide. Female feticide refers to a practice where the female fetuses are selectively eliminated after prenatal sex determination, thus, avoiding the birth of girls. High incidence of induced abortion and the sharp decline in the child sex ratio clearly proves the practice of female feticide 3.