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In India, almost all classes seem to prefer male child over female child. I find this crazy [my wife and I want a girl child]. This tragic choice is due to the following factors:
Once they get married the female goes to an another family. Thus, the parents of females get 0, while the parents of males get 2. Indians are stuck between an ancient tribal system where everyone lived together and the modern system where families are nuclear. Both these are better for women than India's system of the bride moving to the in-laws house.Females are not often groomed to take over the family business as they are expected to be distracted with raising children. Since the females are not helped to become business leaders [unlike sons who receive unfair advantage], businessmen often prefer sons. It is sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.Families with ancestral property think the female children as leading to division of property, while the males stay in the property and thus keeping the ancestral treasures within the family. In fact, dowry probably evolved to compensate the female for giving up her share of the family property to her brothers.
India is a curious case of a healthy economy where women's participation is reducing rather than increasing. As India economy grows, female participation in work force declines: ILO - While it is easier to blame poverty, caste blah blah blah, those factors are not increasing, but decreasing, while women's participation is also decreasing. We should look for deeper causes.
One way to break this cycle is to move to a sort of tribal like community, where the whole family - both of the bride and groom - live close in an apartment community. This way the female is not leaving home, nor breaking the property. And the young mothers would have enough people to care of her children, while she moves up in career or business or education.
Once they get married the female goes to an another family. Thus, the parents of females get 0, while the parents of males get 2. Indians are stuck between an ancient tribal system where everyone lived together and the modern system where families are nuclear. Both these are better for women than India's system of the bride moving to the in-laws house.Females are not often groomed to take over the family business as they are expected to be distracted with raising children. Since the females are not helped to become business leaders [unlike sons who receive unfair advantage], businessmen often prefer sons. It is sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.Families with ancestral property think the female children as leading to division of property, while the males stay in the property and thus keeping the ancestral treasures within the family. In fact, dowry probably evolved to compensate the female for giving up her share of the family property to her brothers.
India is a curious case of a healthy economy where women's participation is reducing rather than increasing. As India economy grows, female participation in work force declines: ILO - While it is easier to blame poverty, caste blah blah blah, those factors are not increasing, but decreasing, while women's participation is also decreasing. We should look for deeper causes.
One way to break this cycle is to move to a sort of tribal like community, where the whole family - both of the bride and groom - live close in an apartment community. This way the female is not leaving home, nor breaking the property. And the young mothers would have enough people to care of her children, while she moves up in career or business or education.
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