Every year, International Daughters day is observed on the fourth Sunday of September, with a sincere wish and earnest belief to cherish the significance of having daughters and break the stigma, eliminate unfounded fear associated with the birth of a girl child that still grips many societies,nations where the news of a new born girl child is still unpleasant, nothing less than a curse for the family and invariably viewed as a befallen liability.
As usual, my fact checking tendency to measure reality vs illusion as to where we have landed now after generations of discrimination, how much we have evolved as a civilized society and human beings- I flipped through some gender ration reports to stay in sync with the transition occurred till now in the 2021 census in India.
Not surprisingly, the state(#Kerala) with the highest literacy as well (96.2 percent literate) which always remained on top showed the highest #sexratio in 2021 census too (1084** females per 1000 males). On the contrary, the state with the lowest sex ratios are Haryana , historically had one of the lowest sex ratios in the country–it had 833 girls for 1,000 boys at birth in 2011, according to the government’s Civil Registration System (CRS) data. However, not to deny or understate the phenomenal improvement that the state has achieved in the current sex ratio which has now jumped to – #Haryana features the lowest sex ratio in India with just 877*** women per 1000 males (according to census 2021 data).
According to some reports, The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that the natural sex ratio at birth is about 952 females to every 1,000 males.
Let me also specify that pointing fingers at males only in any society is extremely unfair as an accusation for holding them responsible for this gap in the sex ratio- because in my observation, in society like ours, women have been equally unwelcoming for a female child many a times, (including so called urban, educated, independent sometimes as well, wondering??) and a bunch of other females around them expressing sympathy after arrival of a female child, an unfathomable narrative, an indication of something seriously erroneous, more grave, deeper irreparable within the society as a whole, that makes me seriously sick to the stomach.
Unquestionably, this census report is an unadulterated reflection, an eye opener of the shift as nation it made from being an orthodox, patriarchal society which upheld its obsession for a male child for centuries, that was once entrenched across the nation.
though, still a long way to go!
#WahWoman #Ecocivilisation #genderequality #gendergap #togetherwecan
#women #equality #society #diversity
