Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue: 2

Disappearing of Daughters or Failure to Perforate the Chakravyuha of Favoritism from Womb to tomb

1Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Dayanand College, Hisar

2Post Graduate Teacher (Geography), AMSSS, Bhiwani, Rohilla, Hisar

3Ph.D Scholar, Department of Political Science, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

*Corresponding Author: Manju Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Dayanand college, Hisar, Haryana, India. Email: manju.haritash@gmail.com

Online published on 27 August, 2018.

Abstract

A woman is considered the best creation of nature and her absence is not an only peril to human continuation but also cause of fading natural scenery. The present study relates to state Haryana which has the most severe shortage of girls compared to boys among twenty-nine states of India, as accepted by the census of India. The work is based on secondary data obtained from Primary census Abstract, Haryana to different census years and evaluates the sex ratio in Haryana since 1901 to 2011 and shows that the continual disappearing of girls becomes more tremendous during the last some decades. The girl's child is missing mainly through abortion, high female infant transience and son preference by the people. It represents the social and mental backwardness of people. The argument comprises what the people and government of state and nation have done to upgrade the serious unfairness against girl's child and women and what additional steps might be in use to recover the sex ratio. Pearson's correlation coefficient has been used to measure the degree of association between sex ratio and its major determinants. The study highlights certain facts about consistent declining male-female ratio of the population of Haryana and the observation unearths those facts (strong son preference, maternal mortality, sex-selective abortions etc.) which are responsible for regional variation in sex ratio as well as the adoption of double standards for the girl and boy child. The study also tries to justify that in any form, disgracing and missing of females can't be a development for any nation.

Keywords

Infant transience, Preference, Unfairness, Abortion, Sex-selective Abortion