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Gender Imbalance in India:causes and Consequences
GENDER IMBALANCE IN INDIA:
CAUSES & CONSEQUENCES
Madan Mohan .L*
India is an of the countries cross the earth which has the lowest and the declining gender ratio. It is in general 933 females against 1,000 males as per 2001 census. If it is likened with the universal sex ratio and the sex ratios of additional countries,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], especially the eastern countries, it is the lowest (Table 1).
India is the only exception amid the important nations of the World. Its gender ratio remains unfavourable to females and it consistently declines with some fluctuation during the successive censuses (Table 2).
The census data denote phenomena; variations in the state level sex ratios in India ranging from 861 in Haryana to 1058 in Kerala (Census 2001, Figures at a Glance: 92). If we see at the overall ratios in Indian states, we find improvement in nearly each state and association territory during the decade 1991-2001, but the sex ratio of the child population in the age-group 0-6 years has consistently declined (Table 3).
The ebb in the sex ratio of the total child population in India is much faster than the overall sex ratio of the total population in India. This ebb tin be observed over a great number of states and union territories (Table 4).
A very sharp decline and the larger gender imbalance due to the shortage of female children can be observed in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Gujarat, Delhi, Uttaranchal, Goa and Delhi as compared with Sikkim, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Jharkhand and Orissa, where the gender ratio is quite above the overall ratio in the age-group 0-6. In truth, the number of states and union territories (UTs) and their shares of population below the national average sex ratio have increased and, on the other hand, their number and their shares of population above- the national average sex ratio have declined.
In the four major states of U.P., Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the sex ratio declines and remains below the citizen average of 927 in the age group 0-6 but in Bihar it has declined from 1991 to 2001, nevertheless it remains above the average. U.P. has a digit of districts having sex ratio below 850. There are numerous districts of Rajasthan, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh and highly urbanized districts of Mumbai, Calcutta, Delhi and Chandigarh which also fall in this species.
The big quantity of shortfall and the increasing trall overto it show the seriousness of the material. The continuance of female foeticide, infanticide, female discrimination, high maternal and female mortality persists in India and worsen the sex ratio. The measures to improve the sex ratio to reinstate gender balance: remain least efficient because of the; mind-set constructed by the patriarchal values.
The male in general and the male child in particular have privileged position in the patriarchal family institution. In the starting of the establishment of the patriarchal joint family institution during the post-Vedic phase, Manu writes that according to this tradition, the fulfillment of dharma, the inheritance of family attribute and the performance of family sraddha can be done only by the dad who is the brain of the family and later him only by the eldest son because it is the male child forward who is by birth contributed with economic, religious and spiritual merits (Kapadia 1972: 222). It is here that the gender inequality and eminence of the male human originates in the patriarchal tradition.
This ideology fortified the family and the family imposed it on its members and consolidated it through indoctrination into the sacred, sacramental and economic values of the male in general and the male child in particular, who is the beneficiary in production in the family heritage. This reflects a binary against to the rule of gender equality. As a result, the necessity to obtain a son, preferably the first male child for inheritance, for marriage and for procreation became an inevitable social necessity. Thus, this necessity became the most cherished appetite of the parents. The sacramental values of the male child gradually became so acceptable that it slowly superseded the sacramental value of the female child whose birth ensures the fulfillment of kanyadan (the gift of virgin) to send punya (or merit) to the parents.
There have been efforts to crash the binary opposition and provide space for the female member in the joint family and equal share in the patrimony (family properly) among the female and male descendents, but in malignity of this, the female exclusion, discrimination, arid subordination has continued because the patriarchal values have gone1 deeper into person mind that the male child unattended has the spiritual merit and he lonely can perform the funeral rites to bring peace to the deceased parents and make them immortal. This is the privileged position in the spiritual heritage bestowed above him single and it is through him alone that the deceased parents can fulfill salvation. It is here that the social basis of gender inequality and iniquitous gender discrimination germinate. This inequality tends to be much stronger than the economic basis of gender inequality because liven if the economic equality is achieved in the family property and in the economic sphere outdoor the family, the religious, spiritual and ritual status of the male child, particularly the first male child remains higher than the female child.
The study behaved by the Christian Medical Association of India in elected administration and personal hospitals in the National Capital of Delhi indicates (The Times of India, 16 July 2005) that while the premier masculine child namely connate, there is no bias opposition the next child even if it happens apt be a petticoat newborn, and in namely case, the gender ratio remains for lofty as 959 female children (0-6 years) per 1,000 masculine children, yet while the 1st female baby is born, the second female birth is discriminated against as absence of a masculine child, and in namely case, the gender ratio declines to 542. In case when both the first children are female, the ratio is shockingly as cheap as 219 female babies per 1,000 male babies. The only reason for this is the magnitude creature given at the parents to the patriarchal amount of gender favorite traditionally handed over to the society and internalized into the individual mind.
The Indian family without children is not considered a family, and if among the children, there is no male child, the family becomes restless which makes the family turbulent and oppressive instead of being a democratic and welfare creation. The casualty of sex selective abortion (female foeticide), female child abuse, female infanticide, married discord and maltreatment of women are samples of family violence (Nongbri 1995: 32-33; Buch 1997: 41-49).
We anticipate an contrary relationship between the occurrence of female foeticide and the socio-economic development. The National Family and Health Survey (NFHS-1998-99: 120), reports that the desire to have more male children is higher in rural (37%) than in urban (22.6%) areas, although a heap of rural (85.5%) as well as urban (75.6%) population wants to have the balanced sex ratio of children. But to have at least one surviving male child in the family is like their basic social necessity in both the rural and urban areas. There are reasons for this. The Indian economy is still predominantly agrarian labour-intensive feudal. The desire to have the male child is governed by the logic of expected economic utility of the male child.
The level of pedagogy in Delhi is quite high. Its literacy class is as high as 82 per cent which is much on the national average of 65 per cent. But the sex ratio of Delhi is as low as 868 which is many underneath the national mean sex ratio of 933 and it is still much beneath the WHO's prescribed sex ratio of 950 girls per 1,000 boys. Further, the file at the mini level suggest that the urban posh colonies and affluent enclaves have much higher gender imbalance This indicates that such colonies with people from higher educational and socio-economic backgrounds have much greater gender preference and much lower sex ratio than their rustic similarities in f areas (Table 5).
The urban areas are more progressive, educated and predominantly nuclear in terms of the family size. The nuclear family is a broken structure of the patriarchal joint family but ideological continuity between them remains intact The forces of modernization have affected the structure of the joint family and given ascend from the same lineage to the growth of nuclear or small-scale joint families which may function even without property but on the line of the same lineage. This method that joint and nuclear families are ideologically not different from each other. In spite of structural changes, ideological continuity manifests into the nuclear family. The members of the nuclear family even if they live at a distance and may not own family property in common, nail themselves as members of the same patrilineal group. Very constantly, they visit their lineage family members, partake in family rituals and ceremonies, provide financial and other kind of aid, and cherish the same emotions, norms and values. Both the joint and the nuclear families look like a cultural unit, united by similar cultural norms (Dube 1997:3). It is all because of the kind of family socialization and indoctrination which take place in the family and reinforce the patrilineage kinship based values which provide no coverage for any deviation from the family's normative order and heritage (Karve 1952; Desai 1964; Kapadia 1972; Dube 1974,. it is the cultural continuity rather than the structural change that mailers more nuclear family is actually ideologically patriarchal nuclear family it type of small patriarchal joint or an stretched unitary family type structure which is also also fortified by patriarchal values.
The socially conditioned use of the advancement in science find technology tends to improve the increasing trbring an end to ... female foeticide. Tilt-rampant misuse of sex decision technology designed by science shows the continuance of a feudal patriarchal mentality of the people. It has exasperated the problem of gender imbalance and denied the right to female baby unborn. The identification of the sex is done with the motive to terminate the female fetuses.
The doctors who movement in favour of the lawful forbid and against the misuse of prenatal diagnostic technique themselves in violation of the regal ban, use the technique to identity the gender and abort the female foeticide in their own nursing families. This is done with the permission of and financial aid by the family without being disclosed to the public. Their clinics are well protected by powerful lobby in league with influential persons
In the state of Tamil Nadu, the birth of a girl is taken as inauspicious, a responsibility and a burden on the family's wallet and resources, while the birth of a male baby is considered as auspicious and one things to the family. Therefore, the births of the female and the male babies are actually the questions of wallet and proud. The system of hypergamy creates the problem of purse on list of dowry, valuable marriage and ceremonies at the time of the marriage of the girl. This shows a typical patriarchal mind-set. Therefore, the havoc of the female baby is considered a cultural essential. At the birth of the female baby, a ritual understood as dudhpilao is performed. This ceremony has convert a custom to be performed if need arises. This ritual symbolizes a marker given by the parents to demolish the female baby through various means. One of them is to drown the female baby in a pit or a vessel filled with breast. Such practices have taken area in Salem district and other areas in Tamil Nadu. Also, in some areas of Rajasthan and Bihar and other parts of the nation such a train is a custom. The Rajput, an upper caste, is known for practicing this custom. The Indian census considers this custom as a contributory cause of more deaths of female infants, adversely affecting the sex ratio.
Among the Christians and the Muslims, the sex ratio is relatively higher. There is no such social practice of female foeticide and infanticide among them. This is one of the reasons of no decline in the size of their population but the population of Hindus has declined. This decline was 25.1 per cent during 1981-91 and 20.3 per cent during 1991-2001 with the relative inconsistency of 4.8 per cent decline among them. The Christian population remains almost constant but the Muslim population in India increased by 34.5 per cent during 1981-91 and 36.0 per cent during 1991 2001 with the relative difference of 1.5 per cent increase among the Muslims as against 4.8 per cent decline in Hindu population. This decline may be endowed to the alarming decline in the gender ratio among the Hindus. We observe that the sex ratio among the Hindus, and also among the Jains and the Sikhs, who are also counted as Hindus is the lowest as compared to other religious communities (Table Cool

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However, If we examine it across the region, we find that the child sex-ratio among the Hindus of Punjab and Haryana is much lower. It is as low as 821 among the Hindus of Punjab and 816 among them in Haryana but among the Hindus, Jains and Muslims of Kerala, the sex-ratios are as high as 1058, 996 and 1082 respectively. Kerala is an exception in this regard. The patriarchal value of gender preference is no momentous at entire in the state of Kerala for the state has traditionally been beneath the influence of matriarchal values. There are important partitions of population like the Nairs of Malabar in Kerala, the Khasis and the Garos of Assam and the areas of the north-eastern area where the matrilineal family systems are common, the pro-female gender-ratio exists. In such a system of family, the matrilineal descent follows female line. The sex ratio of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura is higher than Kerala and much higher than the national average (Table 4).
In adding to the male preference, the second property of the patriarchal ideology linked with the gender preference is the set of interrelated values attached with the status of women, their subordinate position, their exclusion and discrimination, their marriage as a essential sacrament and the ponderous expenses on their marriage (including dowry). These are very closely correlated with the decline in the number of female babies.
In spite of the changes in the system of inheritance (Hindu Succession Act, 1956), male members of the family still have the right as heirs to the coparcenary ancestral property. The Act of 1956 remains futile in spite of the female entitlement to share ancestral property. Thus, we find that in the patriarchal social order, there are two hierarchically sorted social groups: (1) the primary group of property-owning male patrikin endowed with higher socio-economic and ritual status; and (2) the secondary group of property less female patrikin endowed with lower socio-economic and ritual status in the family's social hierarchy. The patriarchal ideology prescribes sex segregation, female dependency, high value to female virginity, ritual inequality and the cultural norms like gotra, lineage, level, caste endogamy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], exogamy, early female marriage,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], distribution of prerogatives by ascription,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], etc. Such ideological prescriptions are the bases of a hierarchically sorted structured form of gender inequality and the social department between the male and the female patrikin of the patriarchal system. The family socialization was so faultless that both the male and the female patrikin secondhand to live in harmony, fulfilled their duties, shared and cherished the same patriarchal values. The social department traditionally created tends to have been amplified today by the forces of modernization.
The legislative measures to amplify the age at marriage are not much obliging because the religious values attached with marriage to be solemnized at the accomplishment of adolescence are not undergoing premonitory alteration. The problem of early marriage is now not only socially but likewise economically created, because the social penury paired with economic penury complicates the problem of early marriage of girls. Now the problem is being intricate more by the variety of womanly hormonal changes taking place due to the shock of modernization. The girls are now under additional exposure to the medium, westernized culture and education, closer interpersonal relations and open family surroundings. They have now improved nourishment and healthcare, lavish approximate to life and more exposure to infancy obscenity. Such changes tend to increase early arrival of puberty among them which may start at 10 or 11 years of age prefer than its arrival at 12 or 13 years of age a ten-year ago. The arrival of puberty at early ages was too observed in the 1970s in western societies (The Times of India, 24 August, 2005). The coming down of the average age at puberty would make the girls agreeable women faster during adolescence. It would develop more worry among the parents and more sex abuse among the girls. The parents may either take disciplinary measures to cope with the bodily changes and defend the girls from sexual abuse or they may pursue the fancy traditionally handed over to the Indian society to wed them youth. The modern changes might strengthen the patriarchal reach to early age at marriage for girls and that would be injurious to the sex ratio.

Another contributory ingredient of declining gender ratio related instantly to the status of female child in particular and women in general is the lower nutritional status of women in a patriarchal family, causing considerable deaths of female children in the age group 0-6 years. This can be explained in part by the gender discrimination in the patriarchal order manifesting into the quality of food intake and health concern services catered by the family to male and female children (Dube 1997: 137, 43). The lower socio-economic status of women and the consequent lower nutritional status is a feature of patriarchal ideology. The women work a lot but their work is least recognized. They dine the least and the last in terms of quality and amount of edible. Such a gender-based discrimination causes gradual and serious physical absence among women and female children. India's maternal mortality rate continues to be almost 540 per lakh live births. The National Family Health Surveys (1992-93 and 1998-99 and UN.TCEF, 1998: p.11) have reported that it is because of the social foundation of gross nutritional and medicinal disregard of female babies that the post-neonatal mortality among them is 13 per cent higher than male babies. In the behind rural areas, the mortality of female infants is as high as 86 per thousand live births. The United Nations Children's Fund reports (UNICEF 2004: 57) that 8 out of 10 fertile women suffer from anemia and maternal and child birth related problems. Further, the UNCIEF reports (2005: 17) that about one-third of all babies have low weight a while back and more than half of female children are malnourished due to female entrenched biases and sheer omit. The World Health Organization reports (1999) that about 5 lakh women die world wide every year due to pregnancy and childbirth related causes. The maternal mortality rate among them is the highest in the South Asian region.
What we observe that the patriarchal value of gender preference, assigning differential social status to the male and the female children in the family's social hierarchy, giving greater importance to the materialistic value of wedding operating from beneath the sacramental attention in wedding and associating lusty religious sanctions for marriage, lower old at marriage for girls and the dowry have now come much closer to every other in playing t. joint role in promoting higher incidence of female foeticide, as well as infanticide and dowry related deaths. This has reasoned a solemn danger to the restoration of gender poise in India. The declining trbring an end to ... the sex ratio might encourage polyandry and it might escalate if the patriarchal values proceed to exert their inspire on Indian society. This affect has to be neutralized by assorted formal and informal agencies of studying and strong legislative measures must be taken by the government to control the trend of gender unbalance in India.
Table 1
Sex ratio in selected countries, 1998-2000
Countries Sex-Ratio (females
per 1,000 males)
World 986
Russian Federation 1,140
Japan 1,040
USA 1,029
Brazil 1,025 Nigeria1,016
Indonesia 1,004
Bangladesh953
China 944
Pakistan 934
India933
Source: World Population Prospects, United Nationsl998-2000

Table 2
Sex ratio in India, 1901-2001
Census Year Sex-ratio (females per
1,000 males
in the total population;
1901 972
1902 964
1921 955
1931 950 1941 945
1951 . 946
1961 941
1971930
1981 934
1991 927
2001933
Source: Census of India, 2001.
Table 3
Sex ratios in the aggregate population and in the population of
children in the age group 0-6 in India, 1961-2001
Year Sex ratio in the Sex ratio in the total child
total population population in the age-group
of 0-6 years
1961941976
1971930964
1981 934 962
1991 927 945
2001933927
Source: Census of India, 2001.

Table 4
Decline in the sex ratio in the age-group 0-6 in Major Indian
States and union territories, 1991-2001
Major Indian states and Sex ratio in the
Union territories age- group 0-6
1991 2001
Himachal Pradesh 951897
Punjab 875793
Chandigarh 899845
Haryana 879 820
Uttar Pradesh 927 910
Uttaranchal 948 906
Rajasthan 916 909
Bihar 953 938
Jharkhand 979 966
Orissa 967 950
West Bengal 967963
Madhya Pradesh 946917
Gujarat 928878
Maharashtra 946917
Karnataka 960949
Tamil Nadu 948930
Kerala 958 963
Assam 975 964
Goa 964933
Delhi 915 865
Sikkim 965986
Nagaland 993 975
Manipur 974 961
Mizoram 969 971
Tripura 967 975
National Average945927
Source: Census of India, 2001

Table -6
Sex ratio in selected colonies in Delhi, 2005
Selected colonies in Delhi Sex Raito
Rural Urban
PreetVihar 850 780
Punjabi Bagh 885 840
Vasant Vihar 887857
PatelNagar 937866
Haus Khas 925882
Defence Colony 987883
Delhi ---868
India's Sex ratio: 933 to the total population.
Source: The Times of India, 3 August, 2005.
Table -6
Sex ratios among another religious communities, 2001
Religious To total To total child population
communities population in the age-group 0-6
Hindus 931925
Jains 940840
Sikhs 893786
Buddhists 953942
Christians 1009 969
Muslims 936 950
Others 992 976
National average 933 927
Source: The Times of India, 8 September, 2004.

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