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The problem of ‘missing women’ and measuring gender progress
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The Indian Express
According to the 2011 census, India’s sex ratio is 943 females per 1,000 males, whereas the child sex ratio is 919 girls per 1,000 boys.
NFHS-5 (2019-21) also recorded the sex ratio of 1,020 females per 1000 males and the child sex ratio of 929 girls per 1,000 boys.
Governments use sex ratio and child sex ratio indicators for framing policies with respect to gender equity, maternal and child health, education, social welfare, etc.
The problem of ‘missing women’The low child sex ratio in India indicates that the problem of ‘missing women’ remains a pressing concern.
Amartya Sen used the phrase ‘missing women’ in his essay More Than 100 Million Women Are Missing (1990) to indicate that there were far too few women relative to the number of men in Asia.