Bandyopadhyay Mridula
Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, Department of Public Health, School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Health Care Women Int. 2003 Dec;24(10):910-26. doi: 10.1080/07399330390244220.
Survival chances of girls in parts of South and East Asia have been adverse. Female foeticide, infanticide, abandonment, out-adoption, under-reporting of female births, and selective neglect of girls leading to higher death rates, have contributed to this adversity. Here, I reflect on an observed skewed sex ratio at birth in rural West Bengal, and discuss female foeticide, infanticide, son preference, and abortion. More boys were recorded at birth, and the majority of women desired sons. Trajectories of selective neglect of and discrimination against daughters have been researched extensively, but the related issues of female foeticide and infanticide have been less examined.
南亚和东亚部分地区女孩的生存机会一直很不利。胎儿性别鉴定后堕胎、杀婴、遗弃、送养他人、女婴出生登记漏报以及对女孩的选择性忽视导致更高的死亡率，这些都造成了这种不利状况。在此，我思考了西孟加拉邦农村地区出生性别比失衡的现象，并探讨了胎儿性别鉴定后堕胎、杀婴、重男轻女以及堕胎问题。出生记录显示男孩更多，而且大多数女性想要儿子。对女儿的选择性忽视和歧视的情况已有广泛研究，但胎儿性别鉴定后堕胎和杀婴等相关问题则较少受到审视。
