Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2015

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND GENDER DISPARITY IN INDIA

Dr Mala Sharma

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Gender is a significant macroeconomic factor in studying liberalization of economy and economic growth. The ILO ‘Gender, Poverty and Employment’ (June 2000) report argues that gender, in particular, is a major determinant of rights, access and economic patterns of productive work. Economic growth in any country should defiantly diminish the gender disparity.Unfortunaterly India is country where discrimination against women is visible in matter related to birth ,education ,employment,wages,crime etc. Gender discrimination should matter not merely for the reason that we are care givers, but for the sake of well being & capabilities of women herself. Women bear almost all responsibility for meeting basic needs of the family, yet are systematically denied the resources, information, freedom of action, they need to fulfill this responsibility.,and faces discrimination in being born. .More predominant is the fact that even though there is law against sex determination and sex selective abortion the sex ratio in India is declining in almost all states. According to India’s 2011 census, there is a serious drop in the number of girls, below age 7, between 2001– 2011. It is believed that nearly 8 million of female fetuses have been aborted over past decade (Geeta, 2011). Conversely, some demographers reject the idea of foeticide and explain the decrease in the number of female babies, as result of unreported female birth (Johansson &Nygren, 1991). If there has not been much progress in India in promoting gender equity and considerable measures were not taken in coming years, women in India may continue to lay much behind men in many spheres and also continue to remain far behind the women in other developing countries. This paper tries to study the magnitude of sex selective abortion and the role of technology and economic growth in enhancing this trend.

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Dr MALA SHARMA Economic Growth and Gender Disparity in India Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 8 August 2015

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