PHA-Exchange> Forty Million Missing Girls

[abraham thomas]

Dear Friends in the Movement for People's Health,

An article on Zmag. 
Recent studies suggest that over 40 million girls and women are 'missing' in
China (Klasen and Wink 2003). The problem was driven home in various
ways. One article stressed the "frustrations of as many as 40 million
single men by 2020."

In the study of China's rural development, economists and political 
scientists have frequently examined land policy, while demographers, 
sociologists and anthropologists look at family planning. Yet in real 
life the two domains are closely related as households attempt to match 
and manage their land and labor resources. This article brings together 
questions about land, gender and family planning in relation to both 
policy and practice. It draws on fieldwork in rural north China and 
comparative data to examine and assess local and regional variations in 
the critical gender imbalance in contemporary rural China.

Please click on - for full article
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=103&ItemID=8891 
<http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=103&ItemID=8891>

A close look at India's demographic challenges would not be very 
different from what we have just read!!  The harsh realities of today 
are becoming more and more evident on life and are telling strangely on 
the balance.

For articles and news on social issues cutting across the spectrum 
around the world, please visit Zmag at http://www.zmag.org/

Best regards,
Abraham

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