خلاصة:
Girls in India face discrimination from cradle to grave in different forms and in different arenas of life. However, it is long survival of women compare to men (due to menopause older women free from risk of bearing children in later life and live longer (Cromie, 1998), which makes them 48% of population (Census, 2011). At every step, she is in patriarchal shackles with no opportunity to escape and fly. In society, she is equated as a commodity or a chattel and she has no freedom to make choices or express her opinion. It is because of deep rooted biases and internalization of patriarchal value. There are many underlying facts contributing the torment life of girls including female foeticide, child abuse, malnourishment, child mortality, dowry, malpractices in families etc. The present paper analyse the various discriminatory practices prevalent in India against girl child. The paper also emphasises that the innocence and sanctity of childhood must be protected and nurtured to flourish the bright future of girls in India.
ملخص الجهاز:
"Originally, in addition to taking care of the temple and performing rituals, these women learned and practiced Sadir (Bharatanatya), Saga of Discrimination of Girl Child in India Odissi and other classical Indian artistic traditions and enjoyed a high social status as dance and music were essential parts of temple worship.
India having advantage of demographic dividend (with 356 million 10-24 year- olds makes youngest population of world and followed by China 269 million young people) (UNFPA, 2014) but suffering from skewed sex ratio (940 worse than most of the countries) which means we are losing our half potential (female population is 48%) of workforce.
The ill effect of imbalanced sex ratio can be easily observed in Haryana, where many cases are reported due to it (According to the 2013 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report, 24,749 children and women between the ages of 15 and 30 were kidnapped and sold into marriage across the country).
(SAARC, 2013) Her survival to basic necessities to survive is Saga of Discrimination of Girl Child in India subjected to practices loathed with discrimination, and story is not so in poor families but significantly in middle class upper middle class and affluent middle class society (In 2009, the campaign 50 Million Missing Campaign had put up an online survey.
To give a rough approximation of the numerical impact of excessive female mortality, he also estimated the ratio of males to females in selected populations that would exist in the Saga of Discrimination of Girl Child in India absence of discriminatory treatment of females, and thus, the total number of ‘missing’ females."