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WOMAN

An Endangered Species?

Aristotle, in ancient Greece, counseled men on techniques to guarantee the birth of a son. The Talmud similarly advises husbands on how to ensure that a son is born. Even in a land like India where women are worshiped as gods, the Indian family is preoccupied with the male child. His arrival into the family is heralded with great jubilation and rejoicing. The daughter, on the other hand, is considered a burden that only few care to carry.

Bringing up a daughter is taken to be like watering a plant in someone else’s house, because although the parents educate and nurture her; to say in short, spend money on her; ultimately she will be married and go to somebody else. She will be an asset for somebody else’s home. She is therefore “alien property”.

This book is a collection of articles written by various individuals expressing their concern towards the missing millions of this great nation where women are worshipped as gods, yet the Indian family is preoccupied with the male child. They still seem to suffer from the ‘perennial’ disease, ‘son stroke’. Sensitized citizens and youth must start a movement against this on slaughter on female child. The country must produce more Nisha Sharma’s to counter the menace of dowry.

Mary Scaria scjm, is an advocate of the Supreme Court of India. She is also the co-ordinator of the Justice & Peace Commission, Delhi Archdiocese. She is the author of many books such as; Law & Your Rights, Human Rights: A Close Look, Minorities in the Present Political Scenario, Maid in Hell, The Unknown Face of the Church….

Contents

Forward
Introduction
Part -1
1. And then there were none
2. Women & Crime
3. Concern over female foeticide
4. Dubious choice
5. A Price for life
6. Pre-natal tests: Supreme Court seeks
fresh reports from the States
7. Can the cradles save Dharyapuri girls?
8. Female foeticide on the increase in India
9. Women dies while undergoing abortion
10. Govt to expand sex tests ban
11. Female foeticide in IVF Punjab
12. The long Road ahead
13. Dead before they are born
14. Travails of the girl child
15. Womb raiders
16. Grooms go begging in Haryana
17. Whoese womb is it always
18. Girls at adoption centers have reasons to smile
19. Foeticide slur on posh Delhi
20. Girls: God’s blessing or man’s burden
21. Female illiteracy-Gender inequality to
realize a distant Dream
16. Percentage of Girls in school environment by
stages in India 1950-51 & 95-96
17. Evil Practice Of Dowry
18. Ancient practice of dowry perpetuates
violence against women in India
26. Women Daughter Burnt For Dowry
27. Tortured By In-Laws, Girl Loses Mental Balance
28. Booked For Demanding Dowry
29. Dowry Harassment Force Women To Commit Suicide
19. ‘Father Killed Her’
30. Wife Set Ablaze For Dowry Dies
31. Dowry Case: Man Given Life Term For Killing Wife
32. Women Burnt To Death
33. Dowry Victime Couldn’t Take It Any More
34. In- Laws Kill Woman For Dowry
35. Women set ablaze by in-laws
36. Lectures, parents accused of torturing women for dowry
36. Dowry Deaths, Abuse Against Women on Rise
37. Four booked in dowry death case
38. Dowry death on the rise in city
39. Spot light on Dowry and bride burning
40. Life term for dowry
41. Case against Cop for dowry death
42. Dowry cases on the rise
43. From candle to grave
44. Deep-rooted disease
48. What the law says
49. The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
50. Nothing official about dowry
51. Sati in Panna, shielded by faithful
and witnessesd by sons
52. Probe ordered into sati
53. Shameful NCW
54r Sati incident Figures in M.P Assembly
55. Crime called Sati
56. Woman was forced to jump into pyre: Govt
57. Truth loses its way when Bangle cracks
58. Sexual assault on women
59. Report on perpetrator of the crime
60. Case study
61. Incest rape
62. Ratio Showing Persons Involved in the Crime
63. Wide gap
64. Long delays
65. Even convicts detests rapists
66. Punishment for rape
Part – II
67. Violence against women-mental health and
human right perspective
68. Equality & development: Gender issues in India
69. The socio- cultural Ethos of gender bias
70 Marriage – A Retail Outlet
71. Rooted Custom
72. Are our Sisters & daughters for sale
73. Female foeticide
Part – II
74. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
75. The Domestic Violence Against Women (prevention) Act, 2005
76. Appendix
77. Index
78. Abbreviations