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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4578)	6/14/1999 12:31:00 PM
From: Lola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

That explains it... see Chandigarh has the lowest female/male ratio.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4578)	6/14/1999 1:14:00 PM
From: Satish C. Shah	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

I disagree. Hello Mohan: Here are some extracts and sources. The medical tool of "Ultra Sound," commonly used to determine the gender of the fetus, has brought in a very cruel social evil of Female Infanticide into our culture. The female fetuses are being aborted right after their Ultra Sound detection. Unfortunately this social evil is viewed by those who undergo this procedure as well as by those who perform it, as "Just another medical procedure." syf.jaj.com All about female infanticide. sorrel.humboldt.edu The first area I will focus my attention on is India. In India there are frequent cases of female infanticide. This occurs mostly among the poor, rural populations. Due to the lack of money and the tradition of dowry, women are looked at as an added expense. Sons are called upon to provide the income; they are the one's who do most of the work in the fields. In this way sons are looked to as a type of insurance. With this perspective, it becomes clearer that the high value given to males decreases the value given to females. Another factor that inhibits Indian women is the purity-pollution concept. There are many more factors in Indian society that this belief effects, but since I am focusing on women, I will only discuss how purity and pollution effects them. In Indian society people are arranged into a hierarchy of classes commonly known as casts. Each cast has its place in society by performing certain occupations and duties. The highest of the casts would be the Brahmans (priests) and they are the most "pure" of all casts. This purness lessens as one goes down the scale of casts. Women are traditionally more "polluted" than the men in their cast. This is due to the fact that women menstrate and give birth. Once a woman has begun to menstrate she is put into isolation, for she can spread her pollution to all she comes into contact with. Her family is automatically polluted because of her. The same goes for child-birth. It is considered to be dirty and therefore polluting to all those around her. This is just one more reason why females are less desirable in Indian society. Depending upon geographical location and economic status, different sectors of Indian society deal with female births in different manners. The combination of dowry and wedding expenses usually add up to more than a million rupees ($35,000). In India the average civil servant earns about 100,000 rupees ($3,500) a year.(2) Given these figures combined with the low status of women, it seems not so illogical that the poorer Indian families would want only male children. In the more wealthy parts of India, the practice of female foeticide exists. This is the aborting of female infants while still in the womb of their mother. This practice involves determining the gender of an infant. Once this is known the family will most likely choose to abort the child if it is a girl_. In the cases of both the rich and the poor, the birth of a girl child is dreaded. A family is looked upon with sympathy if they have many girls. Females are mourned over from the time of birth; a father is not pround until he has a son; and a mother is proud of her new born son for he will assure her a better life. India is not the only country in which girls are killed or aborted once their gender has become known. The People's Republic of China also engages in this practice and for similar reasons. One must first take a look at how women are viewed in this society. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has made it a point to have equality between the sexes. There are laws that provide equal rights for men as well as women in all areas, including ownership of property, inheritance and educational opportunities. It has also been viewed that women's rights are in a separate category from human rights. Therefore, even though there are women's organizations in China, they are under CCP control. These organizations are able to address some issues involving abuses of women's human rights, but when women's rights or interests conflict with CCP or government policy, the policy overrides. More…. sorrel.humboldt.edu Regards, Satish

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4578)	6/15/1999 8:15:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

Slim pickin's for BJP in Kerala. BJP struggles for allies in Kerala D Jose in Thiruvananthapuram Few in Kerala are willing to contest the coming elections as independents supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party. As the party had failed to find strong allies in the state, its leadership had decided to field eminent personalities in its bid to woo the electorate in the Communist-ruled state. Sources said most of the eminent persons the party had approached had expressed their reluctance to accept the BJP's support....... rediff.com