Afsana Islam

Gender Inequality and Missing women

In South Asia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about those destitute and the pre detected sex selective abortion of girl child who did not see the light of the earth. This study may enlighten the future mothers and safe from such irrational and crucial inequality. Birth of girl hurts as thorn in neck for parents about her sexual safety and security and also the main responsibility regarding the dowry of a girl child during her marriage. People start counting the rate of an abortion in compare to growing expenses of a girl child. And the result comes- killing of a girl is more affordable than her whole life grown up and dowry expenses. From this study we come to know about the real picture of sex selective abortion and its effects on over all demographic features in South Asian countries. It still happens in this region because it is the area of strong patriarchal nature and fully culture oriented life style. Their dependency and economically defined future responsibility on children in family relations is major determining factor of decreasing rate of women and girl child.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 68
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm
• ISBN-13: 9783659254864
• ISBN-10: 365925486X
• Artikelnr.: 36775859

Autorenporträt

The author is a post graduate student in theDepartment of Women and Gender Studies, Universityof Dhaka. She attained the BSS Hon's degree Fromthe same discipline. Her field of interest focused onher research work. Moreover she is working exclusivelyon gender inequality and development.