Is the fight for equality
over? The increasing prevalence of 'Gendercide'.
Extracts
from Half the Sky: How to change the world by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl
Wudunn:
"It
appears that MORE GIRLS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE LAST 50 YEARS, precisely
because they were girls, THAN MEN WERE KILLED IN ALL THE BATTLES OF THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY. More girls are killed in this routine 'GENDERCIDE' in any
one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth
century."
"Professor
Sen found that about 107 million females are missing from the globe
today."
"In
India, for example, mothers are less likely to take their daughters to be
vaccinated than their sons- that alone accounts for one fifth of India's
missing females. "
"All
told, girls in India from one to five years of age are 50% more likely to die
than boys the same age. The best estimate is that a little Indian girls dies
from discrimination every 4 minutes."
"In
Fujian Province, China, a peasant raved to us about ultrasound: 'We don't have
to have daughters anymore!'"
"A
study found that thirty-nine thousand baby girls die annually in China because
parents don't give them the same medical care and attention that boys receive-
and that is just in the first year of life."
"In
India, a 'bride burning'- to punish women for an inadequate dowry or to
eliminate her so a man can remarry- takes place approximately once every two
years, but these rarely constitute the news."
"In the
twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan, five thousand women and
girls have been doused in kerosene and set alight by family members or in laws-
or, perhaps worse, been seared with acid- for perceived disobedience just in
the last nine years."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Half-The-Sky-Change-World/dp/1844086828/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370885050&sr=8-1&keywords=half+the+sky
Let's
stop blaming, victimising, discriminating & judging sisters rather
understand, empower, educate & inspire. #InspireASister #Positivity
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