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Cultural and Social Bias Leading to Prenatal Sex Selection: India Perspective

Globally, 23.1 million missing female births have been documented, resulting in an imbalanced sex ratio at birth (SRB) between the late 1990s and 2017, with India accounting for almost half of this missing women population. While the country is progressively taking measures to enhance women's p...

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Autores principales: Chakravarty, Nayan, Dabla, Vandana, Sagar, Moni, Neogi, Sharmila, Markan, Mridu, Segan, Mehak, Agnani, Shilpi, Kapahi, Pooja, Neogi, Sourav
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9234277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35769211
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.903930
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author Chakravarty, Nayan
Dabla, Vandana
Sagar, Moni
Neogi, Sharmila
Markan, Mridu
Segan, Mehak
Agnani, Shilpi
Kapahi, Pooja
Neogi, Sourav
author_facet Chakravarty, Nayan
Dabla, Vandana
Sagar, Moni
Neogi, Sharmila
Markan, Mridu
Segan, Mehak
Agnani, Shilpi
Kapahi, Pooja
Neogi, Sourav
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description Globally, 23.1 million missing female births have been documented, resulting in an imbalanced sex ratio at birth (SRB) between the late 1990s and 2017, with India accounting for almost half of this missing women population. While the country is progressively taking measures to enhance women's position in society and implementing policies toward augmenting the value of a girl child, some deeply rooted cultural and social beliefs propel a strong son preference, resulting in active daughter discrimination. The continuance of patriarchal norms and inequitable gender roles, resulting in son preference, fertility decrease, and reduction in preferred family sizes, and technical breakthroughs that allow for the identification of the sex of the fetus, is all connected to distortions in the sex ratio at birth. Son preference is a well-documented phenomenon in India, and its implications for skewed gender ratios, female feticide, and higher child mortality rates for girls have piqued researchers' and policymakers' interest. The fundamental factors of son preference as an ideology are less widely investigated. With this objective, an extensive secondary review was conducted of the socio-cultural norms and biases leading to increased prenatal sex selection in India despite the laws against it. The study findings suggest that it is imperative to emphasize the necessity for consistent and collective efforts from all stakeholders: changing the social perception of the value of girls requires collective effort and the equal participation of all stakeholders, including civil society organizations and the local community.
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spelling pubmed-92342772022-06-28 Cultural and Social Bias Leading to Prenatal Sex Selection: India Perspective Chakravarty, Nayan Dabla, Vandana Sagar, Moni Neogi, Sharmila Markan, Mridu Segan, Mehak Agnani, Shilpi Kapahi, Pooja Neogi, Sourav Front Glob Womens Health Global Women's Health Globally, 23.1 million missing female births have been documented, resulting in an imbalanced sex ratio at birth (SRB) between the late 1990s and 2017, with India accounting for almost half of this missing women population. While the country is progressively taking measures to enhance women's position in society and implementing policies toward augmenting the value of a girl child, some deeply rooted cultural and social beliefs propel a strong son preference, resulting in active daughter discrimination. The continuance of patriarchal norms and inequitable gender roles, resulting in son preference, fertility decrease, and reduction in preferred family sizes, and technical breakthroughs that allow for the identification of the sex of the fetus, is all connected to distortions in the sex ratio at birth. Son preference is a well-documented phenomenon in India, and its implications for skewed gender ratios, female feticide, and higher child mortality rates for girls have piqued researchers' and policymakers' interest. The fundamental factors of son preference as an ideology are less widely investigated. With this objective, an extensive secondary review was conducted of the socio-cultural norms and biases leading to increased prenatal sex selection in India despite the laws against it. The study findings suggest that it is imperative to emphasize the necessity for consistent and collective efforts from all stakeholders: changing the social perception of the value of girls requires collective effort and the equal participation of all stakeholders, including civil society organizations and the local community. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9234277/ /pubmed/35769211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.903930 Text en Copyright © 2022 Chakravarty, Dabla, Sagar, Neogi, Markan, Segan, Agnani, Kapahi and Neogi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sagar, Moni
Neogi, Sharmila
Markan, Mridu
Segan, Mehak
Agnani, Shilpi
Kapahi, Pooja
Neogi, Sourav
Cultural and Social Bias Leading to Prenatal Sex Selection: India Perspective
title Cultural and Social Bias Leading to Prenatal Sex Selection: India Perspective
title_full Cultural and Social Bias Leading to Prenatal Sex Selection: India Perspective
title_fullStr Cultural and Social Bias Leading to Prenatal Sex Selection: India Perspective
title_full_unstemmed Cultural and Social Bias Leading to Prenatal Sex Selection: India Perspective
title_short Cultural and Social Bias Leading to Prenatal Sex Selection: India Perspective
title_sort cultural and social bias leading to prenatal sex selection: india perspective
topic Global Women's Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9234277/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.903930
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