Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
Why India
needs a Daughters' Day
It’s because that
kind of grass-roots activity is needed to correct their social behaviors,
practices and disrespects on women in addition to making and enforcing laws to
protect women and girls including the ones before born.
Because of the
patriarchy deeply entrenched in their societies, the sex ratio in India is 110 boys
for every 100 girls in the same age. Without human intervention, the ratio is
supposed to like 103 to 106 boys. Though the ratio isn’t as bad as the one in
China, which goes over 115 boys per 100 girls, it clearly shows boys are preferred
children for Indian families. Even after their born, girls’ lives are
threatened by abuses, rapes and assaults.
Now the government,
or at least the minister in charge, has moved a little further to educate people
to appreciate and treat girls in the same way as they do to boys by using social
media. This kind of campaign is definitely cost efficient and seems more
effective than the ones being spent a lot of money.
Enjoy reading
and learning what sort of prejudice and mistreatment are still in place in
India.
p.s. Just be
reminded that “Thursday” means not this one in this week but Aug.11th.
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