Final technical progress report / Revisiting the devaluation of daughters in Bangladesh : continuity or change?
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2011
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BRAC Development Institute, Dhaka, BD
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The major finding from the study is that the phenomenon of ‘missing daughters’ seems to be on the decline, at least in Bangladesh. But there is no room for complacency. Bangladesh, China, India and Vietnam have a shared pattern of gender discrimination that results in excessive levels of female mortality in most age groups, leading to higher than average ratios of men to women in their overall populations. Policy efforts continue to be piecemeal, yet it is clear that the problem of son preference – and daughter aversion – is rooted systemically and must be addressed simultaneously on a number of different fronts.
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MISSING WOMEN, SEX PREFERENCE, GENDER DISADVANTAGE, BANGLADESH, SEX RATIO, SON PREFERENCE IN SOUTH ASIA, GENDER DISCRIMINATION, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, GOVERNMENT POLICY, CIVIL SOCIETY, SON PREFERENCE