It took no less than Prof. Amartya Sen to bring home the truth, girls are conceived and born less. Prof. Sen has been the guest editor at the business daily, The Economics Times on Wednesday, Dec 20.
Among the issues he tackled came the question about sex ratio, and this is what he has to say:
Everywhere, less girls are conceived and born compared to boys. The German ratio is 91 female for 100 male foetuses and 95 girls for 100 baby boys.
Eastern and southern Indian states From Assam, Orissa and West Bengal down to Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala have European sex ratios.
If so, why is this really the case? In many north Indian states, there is a strong discrimination against girls being born, which is why sex-ratios in states like Punjab, Delhi and Haryana are shockingly skewed in favor of boys.
In European states though there is no question of such discrimination. Yet the sex ratios are tilted against baby-girls. One wonders if there’s any scientific explanation behind this phenomenon! Or is it just another statistic that hasn’t been explained?
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