Girl child problem: Horrifying statistics
If
we will look at the statistics of the girl child problem we would find a
systematic genocide being carried against women and girl child. Further
the statistics glaringly show how women are discriminated and
marginalized in the field of education and gainful employment. The
statistics are also testimony to the fact that violence and abuse of
women is rampant and in fact growing in all the major parts of the
world. Ninety-three million women and girls are “missing” from the
world population because of sex-selective abortion, female infanticide,
malnutrition, abuse and neglect of girl children. The vast majority of
the world’s poor are women and girls. Women and girls are 80% of the
world’s refugees. Two-thirds of the world’s illiterates are female.
And, of the millions of children kept out of school - 2/3 are girls.
Women and the girl child make up for the highest incidences of
malnutrition and the exceptionally high rates of malnutrition are rooted
deep in the soil of inequality between men and women. Africa has the
highest rates of HIV/AIDS transmission in the world and in this
explosive situation women are falling prey to this deadly disease. She
does not even have a choice because men have unsafe sex with multiple
partners, and women lack the power to negotiate if or how sex takes
place.
Girl child problem: The perils of gender discrimination
From
the above mentioned statistics on girl child problem we can very
clearly see that the peril of gender discrimination is going to be very
severe on the whole of humanity. There can be no meaningful growth and
development when half of the human population is marginalized and
discriminated against. Women are the guardians of the future generation
and if they are in such pathetic condition wrought by the deliberate
bias and discrimination against them then we can imagine the horrific
future that is stored for the coming generations.
culled from Rise of womanhood
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