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Write short note : Social factors related to declining sex-ratio.

  • UPSC 2006, 2000
  • Population Dynamics

India's sex ratio fell almost continuously through the twentieth century — from 972 females per 1,000 males in 1901 to an all-time low of 927 in 1991, recovering only modestly to 933 in 2001 and 943 in 2011. A decline sustained for ninety years is no biological accident. It records a social preference for sons,…

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  • Son preference and the design of the family
  • Neglect: the slow mechanism
  • Female infanticide
  • The shift to pre-natal discrimination
  • Conclusion

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