The Gender, Institutions and Development Database (GID-DB) is the only database providing researchers and policymakers with key data on gender-based discrimination in social institutions. Covering 160 countries, the GID-DB contains comprehensive information on legal, cultural and traditional practices that discriminate against women and girls. The GID-DB covers five sub-indices including son bias. This sub-index captures unequal […]
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Son preference in China
Despite the old Chinese proverb according to which “Women hold up half the sky”, Chinese families prefer having sons instead of daughters. As a consequence, China faces nowadays millions of missing women, as many of its neighbouring countries. Son preference is often considered as a recent phenomenon whereas it is an old characteristic of the […]
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Son Preference
Son preference reflects the economic valuation of women, based on information on the number of “” in a country. Missing women, a concept suggest by economist , measures gender bias in mortality due to sex selective abortions or insufficient health care to baby girls. See also External Links www.oecd.org/dev/gender/sigi
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Reproductive Rights
Table of Contents 1 About 2 Beijing Platform 3 Other 4 Sources 5 See also 6 External links 7 Further reading About In 1994 the Cairo Programme of Action was adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development. This reproductive health document was the first to be of international policy nature. It states: Reproductive […]
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One child policy
Definition The one-child policy (simplified Chinese: 计划生育政策; pinyin: jìhuà shēngyù zhèngcè; literally “policy of birth planning”) is the population control policy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Initiated in 1979, this policy aimed at alleviating social, economic, and environmental problems in China.It urged that married urban couples can have one child, with the exemptions […]
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