Traditionally, countries suchn as India and China have a gendias bias towards male children. There is a pattern in these countries that, because of the way that the culture requires women to leave their family and join the family of their husband, male children are preffered to garantee that the parents will be supported in old age.
In India, not only do families give away their daughters, but they have to pay a dowry to the family of the husband, which costs them even more money. However, in China, its the family of the husband which pay the dowry which is negotiated before the wedding. The fact that daughters are considered a 'burden' on their parents means that families will often only educated sons; this sends the situation into a vicous cycle where a women cannot get a job and support herself without a husband, making daughters even less preferable.
Areas in the north of India such as Uttah Pradesh often tend to be more traditional and therefore have a greater gender bias. This has slowed the development of the areas, making it poorer than areas in the more developed south. Again this has becom a vicious cicle because this lack of development has fed back to inhiberting any improvement to gender equality in the area.
0 comments:
Post a Comment