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India has the highest number of female Goddesses being worshipped. At the same time perhaps the highest number of female-feticides, highest female-child mortality rate and highest number of dowry-related female deaths. In India this existence of two categories of females is very obvious. One is of respected, worshipped, and powerful females; and the other of totally unwanted, downgraded ones, who practically have no human rights. To look into its genesis, we have to peep back into the historical perspectives.
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Singh, J.R. (1999). Genesis, Compulsions, Acceptability, and Future of Pre-Natal Sex-Selection in India. In: Nippert, I., Neitzel, H., Wolff, G. (eds) The New Genetics: From Research into Health Care. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58486-2_8
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