Alyanna Castronuevo SS15

ChE/4 May 18. 2018

ASSIGNMENT 2: Gender discrimination kills 239,000 girls in India each year, study finds

A report conducted by Steve George via CNN on May 15, 2018 entitled Gender discrimination kills 239,000 girls in India each year,
study finds tackles a study conducted by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), authored by PhD Guilmoto & Saikia, et al.,
concerning the mortality rate of Indian girls under the age of five using 2011 census date. The study found out that about 239,000 girls under the
age of five die each year in India due to neglect linked to gender discrimination.

The article aims to provide awareness in the extreme gender discrimination happening in India. It provided data and numbers to show
accuracy concerning the deaths of female under the young age of five. It was a good stand in female rights since it was clearly stated that gender
equity is not only about rights to politics, employment, or education. It is also about care, vaccination, and nutrition of girls, and survival. The
gender discrimination happening in first world countries are very different than that of India since it concerns death in very young individuals, in
which I think is highly concerning.

The article was straight-forward in stating that the most numbers of death happened in the rural parts of India where there is clearly a
lack of education, high population, and birth rates. It proved that these parts of India are still underdeveloped and uncivilized and having a
barbaric preference for sons ultimately leading to deaths of unwanted female children.

In conclusion, I liked the bias approach of the article towards the study despite giving India a bad reputation, so India and the rest of the
world can act upon this problem. As a female, I admire the write-up of the article encouraging social and economic development for its benefits
on Indian women.