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India Sex Ratio

"The deteriorating ratio from 976 girls to 1000 boys in 1961, to 927 girls in 2001, and to 918 girls in 2011, demonstrates that the economic and social progress in the country has had minimum bearing on the status of women and daughters in our society,” says Ms. Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, Assistant Secretary General of the UN.


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Reference

UN Women. Sex ratios and gender biased sex selection: history, debates and future directions. 2014. online | PDF http://www.unwomensouthasia.org/assets/Sex-Ratios-and-Gender-Biased-Sex-Selection.pdf

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