Sex Ratio

‘Women are not assets to be owned’: Rahul Gandhi slams Manohar Lal Khattar’s ‘brides from Kashmir’ remark

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi termed as despicable Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar's 'brides from Kashmir' remark.

Not one girl born in last six months in 16 villages of Uttarkashi; highly skewed sex ratio at birth in other 66 villages of district

Not a single girl was born in 16 villages in Uttarkashi in the last six months, with authorities suspecting that health facilities were conducting illegal sex determination tests and abortions, following which the Uttarakhand chief minister ordered a probe

Narendra Modi makes Patidars pledge to end female foeticide; dismal sex ratio figures point to Gujarat's 'missing brides'

Despite being an industrially developed state, Gujarat’s sex ratio was 890 girls per 1,000 boys in the 0-6 age group (sex ratio: 919/1000), according to the 2011 Census. This sex ratio is lower, compared with the national average of 933. The state’s bias against the girl child was first exposed in the 2001 Census figures, which showed the child sex ratio to be 883 girls per 1,000 boys.

In a remote Rajasthan national park, two women forest guards forge a friendship

In Rajasthan, a state where the sex ratio is low and the rate of female infanticide is high, two women who hold post graduate degrees are working as forest guards, finding comfort in their friendship amid the arid desert and the loneliness of their jobs

Social norms keep Indian women out of labour market; focus on behaviour change, non-cognitive skills could bring turnaround

Analysis of previous NSSO rounds shows that the Indian labour market lost 1.96 crore women workforce between 2004 and 2011 and 53 percent of this drop occurred in rural India

International Day of the Girl Child Quiz: Reproductive tourism, gender-biased abortions are killing world's female children

On 11 October, marked as the International Day of the Girl, take this quiz to test your awareness of the challenges faced by the girl child in India and across the world

Indians least likely to break out of education, income bracket they're born into, says World Bank report

Indians are more constrained by the circumstances they are born into than five other large developing countries: Brazil, China, Egypt, Indonesia & Nigeria.

Sex ratio at birth declines in 17 of 21 large states, Gujarat records 53-point fall, reveals Niti Aayog report

The sex ratio at birth (SRB) saw a decline in 17 out of 21 large states of the country, with Gujarat recording an alarming dip of 53 points, a report released by the Niti Aayog stated and stressed on the need to check sex-selective abortion

Nearly 40% adolescent girls in India lack access to education, majority forced to stay at home: NCPCR report

The NCPCR report suggests that while most adolescent boys are unable to attend school because they are in all likeliness working, a majority of the girl children are not getting school education because they are either forced to stay at home or engaged in begging

India expected to become world's most populous country in six years; reducing birth rate key to keep check on growth

India can bring a turnaround in its population growth rate in another 37 years, provided it manages to bring down the birth rate, or total fertility rate (TFR), below 2.0 between 2035-2040, and then achieve a TFR of 1.8 by 2061