A cultural preference for sons and the willingness to abort female fetuses in places like India and China has resulted in an estimated global deficit of 100 million girl babies. The destabilizing social consequences of this gender imbalance are now being felt as a generation of men face the reality of not being able to find a spouse. Pulitzer Center grantee Carl Gierstorfer has been documenting the crisis in India’s Uttar Pradesh state, where there are only 858 girls born for every 1,000 boys. “Traffickers capitalize on the shortage by recruiting or kidnapping women ensnared in poverty to sell as brides,” reports Carl in this piece for CNN. “Its a cycle influenced by poverty and medical technologies, but one that ultimately is perpetuated by Indias attitude towards women.” edition.cnn/2014/09/03/world/asia/india-freedom-project/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 03:35:01 +0000
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