Volume : VII, Issue : XII, December - 2018

Female Foeticide And Gender Inequality : A Ban to Woman Empowerment

Ms. Shalini Sihe

Abstract :

Women are the one who constitute the half of a human population. But irrespective of that fact they have been discriminated, harassed and exploited without judging upon their country, religion, caste or creed. Everywhere women are vexed with many provocations. Female foeticide is unfortunately one of the worst mediums of violence against women where the birth of another woman is denied. The most basic and fundamental right, “the right to life” is vetoed to her. Execution of female child has been a quotidian characteristic of the Indian “Patriarchal” society. This practice first came into as “Female Infanticide” i.e. a mother killing her baby within a year of her birth. This practice raged due to lacking in the scientific discoveries and unavailability of modern equipment and progressive technology such as the ruinous sex determining instruments. After a certain time, with an ample availability and substantial supply of such sex determination technologies in the health institutions, hospitals and maternity clinics, hundreds of occurrence of female foeticide were surfaced. Hence, it seems that the foetus–gender determination tests that leads to the  identification of the sex of the unborn child has made the ill–practice of “murdering” the female child disregarded and unchallenging than before. The practice that was initiated in India under the influence of the deeply rooted patriarchy, had been able to prove the strength of a man over a woman, and has also been influenced by poverty and dowry.

 The practice of the female foeticide in India has immensely contributed to Gender Inequality. Female Foeticide in the present 21st century India is one of the biggest challenges against the laws of the welfare of women‘s empowerment in particular. Uprooting this practice is the crucial need of the times and thus it is becoming a veritable perturb.

This article thus emphasizes on the condition of female foeticide and also connects it to another major issue i.e. Gender Inequality.

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Female Foeticide And Gender Inequality : A Ban to Woman Empowerment , Ms. Shalini Sihe , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7|Issue-12| December-2018

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