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Define Patriarchy. How does it impact the overall entitlement of a girl child in India?

  • UPSC 2014
  • Systems of Kinship in India

India's Sample Registration System put the sex ratio at birth at 917 girls per 1,000 boys for 2021-23. No biological process produces that number; a social one does. Patriarchy is therefore best defined here as a system of unequal valuation — an order assigning differential worth by sex before a person can act, and distributing…

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  • Before birth: the missing girls
  • Infancy: survival and the health gradient
  • Childhood: schooling against chores
  • Adolescence: marriage, mobility and the body
  • What has changed, and what has not
  • Conclusion

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