On Sunday 10 Apr 2011 9:00:30 am Udhay Shankar N wrote:
in a situation where *muscle power* is of monotonically decreasing
importance to survival, why would the sex ratio be as skewed as it is?
As usual the original post is missing from my inbox - something that seems to
happen regularly.
On 04/09/2011 05:36 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Shoba says this was a tough piece to write. It was tough to read as well
(and not because it was poorly written, I hasten to add).
Yes, I agree
India needs to save our girls. The future of our boys, and indeed our
civilization, depends on it.
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Stephanie Das Gupta
stephaniewhitin...@gmail.com wrote:
If women keep aborting, abandoning, and killing their girl children, where
will that leave the population? And the boy children who these mothers are
so adamant to save, who will take care of them? Who
Am 09.04.2011 14:06, schrieb Udhay Shankar N:
Udhay (happy parent of one child, a daughter)
Udhay, how much of a financial burden do you expect your daughter will be
when she comes into marriageable age in, say, 15+ years considering the current sex ratio
and considering that the topic will
On 04/10/11 07:48, ss wrote:
[interesting and depressing things]
I suppose the overriding theme here is that unmarried daughters are seen
as a strain on family resources.
So one solution would be better career prospects for women, right, so
they can come home with bundles of cash and thereby
On 10-Apr-11 3:50 PM, Bernhard Krieger wrote:
Udhay, how much of a financial burden do you expect your daughter will be
when she comes into marriageable age in, say, 15+ years considering the
current sex ratio and considering that the topic will be more prominent in
the 2020s?
I
On 10-Apr-11, at 2:39 PM, Stephanie Das Gupta wrote:
If women keep aborting, abandoning, and killing their girl children,
where will that leave the population? And the boy children who these
mothers are so adamant to save, who will take care of them? Who will
they marry? Will the men take
On 10-Apr-11 5:09 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
I have a depressing prediction. Over an extended period, the reduced
supply of suitable brides will cause the roles to be reversed and girls
will become a more precious commodity than boys. Until that happens, the
attitude of Indian men toward
Having said that, I'm not sure what demographic she comes from in India;
she's almost certainly not representative. AIUI her parents are doctors
in a small town, so relatively affluent.
Some states are different from others, Kerala has population inversion. There
is a huge divide across India :)
Am 10.04.2011 13:36, schrieb Udhay Shankar N:
On 10-Apr-11 3:50 PM, Bernhard Krieger wrote:
Udhay, how much of a financial burden do you expect your daughter will be
when she comes into marriageable age in, say, 15+ years considering the current sex ratio
and considering that the topic will
On Sunday 10 Apr 2011 2:39:11 pm Stephanie Das Gupta wrote:
Women have proven they can do just as well as men, if not better, in
many levels. Why should we feel that women or girl children are so
insignificant that they can just be tossed away.
Apart from making it a criminal offence to
Shiv: Har, Har, Mahadev (my favorite ACK quote;-))!!!
Just a quick note to document how this culture cannot be ignored as local
tradition. When I was pregnant with Himadri in 2009, I went for a routine
ultrasound at 21 weeks that my obstetrician advised due to my geriatric
age of 41. At the
On 10-Apr-11 10:21 AM, Aadisht Khanna wrote:
in a situation where *muscle power* is of monotonically decreasing
importance to survival, why would the sex ratio be as skewed as it is?
Hysteresis.
Fair enough (as far as it goes), but the length of lag is a matter of
serious
On 10 Apr 2011, at 08:40, Anish anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote:
Having said that, I'm not sure what demographic she comes from in India;
she's almost certainly not representative. AIUI her parents are doctors
in a small town, so relatively affluent.
Some states are different from others,
On Sunday 10 April 2011 03:50 PM, Bernhard Krieger wrote:
Udhay, how much of a financial burden do you expect your daughter will
be when she comes into marriageable age in, say, 15+ years considering
the current sex ratio and considering that the topic will be more
prominent in the 2020s?
A
On Sunday 10 Apr 2011 11:07:26 pm Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Bah. Try telling your inlaws that you'd much rather your wife stayed
with YOU for 3 months after the delivery .. doesn't work, it gets
classed under privilege
Tough enough to convince them (successfully) to take her along after
On Sunday 10 Apr 2011 11:08:12 pm Shoba Narayan wrote:
Shoba Narayan
http://shobanarayan.com/
Shoba I just read your impassioned piece that was missing from my inbox.
You wrote
Economists have long tried to explain the “missing women of Asia”,
and you also write about this
In Usilampatti
On 10-04-2011 23:08, Shoba Narayan wrote:
I didn't know the meaning on monotonically and hysteresis and looked them
both up. I think the lag is at the tipping point, isn't it? Might it become
what somebody (Bernhard I think) talked about-- dowry flipping genders? The
future of this sad
On 10-04-2011 10:31, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
On 10-Apr-11 10:21 AM, Aadisht Khanna wrote:
in a situation where *muscle power* is of monotonically decreasing
importance to survival, why would the sex ratio be as skewed as it is?
Hysteresis.
Fair enough (as far as it goes), but the length
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