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India going gender awry

While in the rest of the world, women outnumber men by three to five per cent, in India there are seven per cent more men than women and the number of females continues to decline, says a new book.

Neither education nor affluence has brought any significant change in the attitudes towards women. In fact, the increase in the deficit of young girls noticed in the 1981, 1991 and 2001 censuses was indicative of a strong possibility that the traditional methods of neglect of female children were being increasingly replaced by not allowing female children to be born, the book, Sex-selective Abortion in India. Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies, says.

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