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 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 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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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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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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Women are murdered all over the world. But in India a most brutal form of killing females takes place regularly‚ even before they have the opportunity to be born. Female feticide--the selective abortion of female fetuses--is killing upwards of one million females in India annually with far-ranging and tragic consequences. In some areas‚ the sex ratio of females to males has dropped to less than 8000:1000. Females not only face inequality in this culture‚ they are even denied the right to be born
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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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Female Ambiguity: Kirke from The Odyssey vs. Bianca from The Taming of the Shrew Women are ambiguous characters throughout texts such as The Odyssey and The Taming of the Shrew. In these two stories‚ there are female characters that are deceitful and beguiling towards men. Kirke and Bianca are two comparable characters that display such behavior. I will explain how both characters display ambiguity by hiding their true nature behind actions that they wouldn ’t normally take; therefore these
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Orissa Review * December - 2008 Female Foeticide in India : A Serious Challenge for the Society Dr. Krushna Chandra Jena Introduction : Women who constitute half a human population have been discriminated‚ harassed and exploited irrespective of the country to which they belong‚ unmindful of the religion which they profess and oblivious of the timeframe in which they live.1 Everywhere women are confronted with many challenges. Female foeticide is perhaps one of the worst forms of violence
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to turn a deaf ear to. Female infanticide is one of them. Female infanticide is a deliberate and intentional act of killing a female child within one year of its birth either directly by using poisonous organic and inorganic chemicals or indirectly by deliberate neglect to feed the infant by either one of the parents or other family members. On the other hand‚ female feticide is the termination of the life of a foetus within the womb on the grounds that its sex is female. This practice is also
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