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- Hatti, Neelambar, et al.
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Introduction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Poverty, Politics and Poverty of Politics. - 9789387587120 ; , s. 1-19
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- Sekher, T.V., et al.
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Introduction
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Ingår i: Unwanted Daughters : Gender Discrimination in Modern India - Gender Discrimination in Modern India. - 8131603237 ; , s. 1-15
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- Beyene, Atakilte, 1971-, et al.
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Concluding remarks
- 2018
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Ingår i: Agricultural transformation in Ethiopia. - London ; Uppsala : Zed Books ; Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. - 9781786992192 - 9781786992185 - 9781786992208 - 9781786992215 - 9781786992222 ; , s. 180-185, s. 297-302
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- Hatti, Neelambar, et al.
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Disappearing Daughters and Intensification of Gender Bias : Evidence from Two Villages studies in South India
- 2010
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Ingår i: Sociological Bulletin. - 0038-0229. ; 59:1, s. 111-133
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Why are female children still at risk in India despite progress in education, increasing participation of women in economic and political activities, and an overall improvement in the status of women? Is there any significant shift from 'son preference' to 'daughter discrimination'? Based on a study of two villages from low-fertility regions of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, this paper attempts to understand the factors responsible for the increasing discrimination against girls, even before they are born. The widespread use of sex-determination tests and abortion facilities has given an opportunity for parents to acheive the desired family size and the desired gender composition of children. There is an intesification of gender bias particularly among the peasant communities. The rapid fertility decline, not accompanied by changes in the cultural values and gender inequality, has resulted in a deliberate attempt to 'get rid of girls'.
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Unwanted daughters : Gender Discrimination in Modern India
- 2010
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the past two decades, considerable debate has taken place, particularly in India, on the imbalance in gender ratio and the question of 'missing women.' However, the recent discourses in India have changed the focus from 'missing women' to 'missing girls,' highlighting the precarious situation of female children before birth, at birth, and during childhood. Fetuses have been aborted on a massive scale in recent decades simply because of gender. This raises many questions: Why are female children still at risk despite the progress in female literacy and the growing participation of women in economic and political activities? Is there a significant shift from perceived 'son preference' to deliberate 'daughter discrimination' at the household level? Are the advances in reproductive technologies helping couples to achieve the preferred family size and the desired gender of children? Is there a growing realization that daughters are rarely able to 'substitute' for sons, resulting in an intensification of gender bias even among the better-off sections of the Indian society? In order to answer these questions, it is necessary to understand the nexus of economic, social, and cultural factors that underlie daughter discrimination. Based on extensive research, the essays in this book - by sociologists, demographers, economists, and gender specialists - provide a multidisciplinary perspective to the varied facets of increasing gender bias in contemporary India. The contributing scholars emphasize the need for a change in the attitudes of society towards girls as a lasting solution to this social epidemic.
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- Carlson, Benny, et al.
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The Swedish Welfare State Model : A Brief Overview
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Ingår i: Social Science Spectrum. - 2454-2806. ; 2:4, s. 216-229
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- The Swedish welfare state model has its roots in home turf as well as in the soil of othernations, mainly Germany and Britain. It took on its characteristic shape as the People’s Home in the 1930s, when national models to the left and right of the political spectrum in many countries were built around “the people”. At the time it was also labelled “the middle way” between capitalism and socialism. During the 1960s “record years” the Swedish welfare state grew rapidly. It stood at its zenith around 1970, hailed internationally as the Swedish model. However, the welfare state and the economy,closely intertwined, soon entered into a protracted structural crisis. In the early 1990s,Sweden experienced a deep and to a large extent home-made financial crisis and the Swedish model became a warning example in some quarters. Out of the crisis arose a revised model in which welfare services were still provided more or less “for free” (i.e.funded by tax money) while at the same time there were customer/user choice of and competition between public and private providers. Today this revised model is under attack due to the existence of “welfare profits”. It is also challenged by demographic developments – an ageing population and many immigrants lacking entry to the labour market.
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