explain how gender discrimination affects sex ratio?
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Christophe Z. Guilmoto, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015
The Implications of Sex Selection
Gender discrimination plays out in two sequences. The first one is the immediate disappearance of girls at birth (or during early childhood) while the second one refers to future demographic disturbances among adults. The routine elimination of girls before their birth is no doubt the most extreme symptom of women's contemporary undervaluation that goes well beyond all other forms of discrimination. Since Amartya Sen's pioneer paper on missing women (Sen, 1990), we can measure the extent of the resulting gap across populations. Within families, the imbalance is mostly invisible since parents who abort female fetuses often have had prior girls. But when compared across larger communities, figures point inescapably to a surplus of boys. It is in fact possible to get a better idea of the actual rift between male and female by using demographic estimates on the age and sex distribution for entire populations. ‘Missing women’ are women that ought to be found in population censuses if the sex distribution was not skewed toward men. By applying sex ratios by age computed for nondiscriminating countries, from Latin America to Europe, and correcting for age and mortality variations, it is possible to assess the number of women that are apparently missing from demographic records in Asia and Eastern Europe.
Using such a technique in conjunction with the United Nations Population Division population estimates, we obtain a total gender gap of 117 million women missing in 2010 (Table 2). Most of them should be found in China (66 million) and India (43 million). This large figure reflects in part the recent rise in sex-selective abortions, but also the cumulated toll of excess female mortality in the past. It is equivalent to the female population of Brazil or Indonesia, respectively the fifth and fourth most populous countries in the world. It represents about 8% of the female population in affected countries.
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gender discrimination is the discrimination between the male and females that is most common in our indian society.due to discrimination the mentality of people become like they don't want girl so the ratio of girls become low cuz they do practices like abortion because their is girl child . so the discrimination affect the ratio ....
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