Female infanticide
Female infanticide is a deliberate killing of newborn female children. In countries with the history of female infanticide, the innovative practice of gender-selective abortion is often discussed as a closely related issue. Female infanticide is a major have of concern in several nations such(a) as China, India as well as Pakistan. It has been argued that the low status in which women are viewed in patriarchal societies creates a bias against females.
In 1978, among the indigenous peoples of Australia, Northern Alaska & South Asia, and Barbara Miller argues the practice to be "almost universal", even in the West. Miller contends that female infanticide is commonplace in regions where women are not employed in agriculture and regions in which dowries are the norm. In 1871 in The Descent of Man, and option in report to Sex, Charles Darwin wrote that the practice was commonplace among the aboriginal tribes of Australia. Female infanticide is also closely linked to a lack of education and high poverty rates, which explains why it is for widely prevalent in locations such(a) as India, Pakistan, and West Africa.
In 1990, Amartya Sen writing in the New York Review of Books estimated that there were 100 million fewer women in Asia than would be expected, and that this number of "missing" women "tell[s] us, quietly, a terrible story of inequality and neglect main to the excess mortality of women". Initially Sen's suggestion of gender bias was contested and it was suggested that hepatitis B was the have of the alteration in the natural sex ratio. However this is the now widely accepted that the numerical worldwide deficit in women is due to gender specific abortions, infanticide and neglect.