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    Female Foeticide

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    Female Foeticide In India India is a country of incredible ironies. It is a land where people worship myriad forms of female Shakti in quest of wealth‚ wisdom and power. In this country it is a common sight to see thousands of couples making arduous journeys every year to shrines of goddesses in order to be blessed with a child. But strangely enough‚ in this country‚ a couple is said to be ‘blessed’ only when it has a male child; for a girl is never considered a blessing in our society. Her birth

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    female mutilation

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    W7000 – WRITING SKILLS My research topic is on Female Circumcision‚ otherwise known as Female Genital Mutilation (FMG). Female Genital Mutilation is a procedure that involves intentional alteration or cutting of female genital organs for non- medical reasons‚ from age infant to 10 years and older depending on the community. Studies have shown that this practice does not have any health benefit to any female‚ but rather it causes damages. FGM practice is recognized as a violation of human rights

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    Female Foeticide

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    Female foeticide. “Spend five hundred rupees now save five lakhs later “ -Slogan of ultrasound sex-determination clinics. Since the advent of ultrasound and detection technique for sex-determination 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in India‚ according to a study conducted recently in India‚ the first systematic study on female foeticide by an Indo-Canadian team. A shocking picture emerges-every year‚ about 50‚000 unborn girls-one in every

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    Female Sexuality

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    | Activism Project | Female Sexuality | | Leisa Thornton | 5/2/2011 | The pleasures and rights of a woman’s sexual freedom‚ and doing it safely was my activism project main objective. I endeavored to educate woman concerning these issue in a fun and comfortable atmosphere. This topic can be simultaneously controversial and exciting. What is female sexuality? Female sexuality encompasses a broad range of topics‚ including female sexual identity and sexual behavior‚ the physiological

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    Female Education

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    FEMALE EDUCATION Intrcduction: Education means mental and moral training. It is the light that clears off the darkness of ignorance from our mental horizon. It open wide to our vision the vastness of God’s creation and enables us to think about the merciful creator of this universe. It is a blessing. It ensures a perfect and harmonious development of our innate qualities and makes us worthy of the name `Ashraful Makhlukat’ Education should be universal: Education is a light to which everybody

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    female foeticide

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    Female feticide is one of the biggest challenges that India is facing today in terms of gender. It has become a significant social phenomenon. It transcends all barriers of caste‚ class and community and even the north-south dichotomy. The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Gender Gap report for the year 2007 has shown India at a dismal 120th position. The gender gap report looks at the disparities in terms of health‚ education‚ economic status and political participation between men and women

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    Female Foeticide

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    Female Foeticide In India‚ welfare measures like empowerment of women‚ reservation in Parliament‚ free education to girl child and a lot of other woman progressive initiative‚ do not make sense when we look at cases of female foeticide. There are only 933 females for every 1000 males against global figure of 1060 females per 1000 males. Sex ratio is a composite indicator of woman’s status in a society. If we analyse state wise sex ratio‚ it is most disturbing to note that the States like

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    Female Circumsision

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    carlos montalvo Prof. Anum Nyako HED 220-9M 18 February‚ 2012 Female Circumcision Female circumcision is practiced worldwide. To some‚ it is a religious ritual and to others‚ a human tragedy brought on due to male domination. These opinions relating to the practice create conflict in the world between those who hold on to the tradition of female circumcision and those who promote feminism by attempting to prohibit the practice. I do not think that the United States should get involved

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    The Female Body

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    Period 4 21 Oct 2013 The Female Body In “The Female Body‚” Margaret Atwood is discussing how both women and men perceive the female body‚ through their own eyes. She starts off by describing how her own body looks and feels‚ but does this in an indirect way by referring to her body as her topic. Also uses that type of wording to enforce the judgment that people give toward the female body. Atwood describes what type of accessories can come along with the female body. This shows that women are

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    Female Offenders

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    Aarron Eilers February 22‚ 2010 Female Offenders The number of women incarcerated is growing at a rapid pace. This calls for a reevaluation of our correction institutions to deal with women’s involvement in crime. Increasing numbers of arrests for property crime and public order offenses are outpacing that of men. The “War on Drugs” has a big influence on why our prisons have become overcrowded in the last 25 years. Women are impacted more than ever because they are being convicted

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