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i would like an opinion on this topic {1}

well, this is sort of prep work for a confrence i will be attending but i would just like to hear others opinions one it. so there is 5 this is just the first one.
1) In last year's The Economist, the headline read "Gendercide: The War on Baby Girls," in which it outlined that there are 100 million more boys than girls in the world. Families pressure their pregnant wife/daughter to abort the fetus if it is a girl, because they think boys are better and more valuable to the family.

However this is part of a larger problem for women that has been occurring for centuries. How and why have girls and women been discriminated against in so many countries throughout history? How are females in your country discriminated against? What can be done to stop this discrimination?
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Lol that's not asking for an opinion, that's asking for an essay! xD
Chaann94 posted over a year ago
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you dont have to write an essay on it. i dont need a lot of details, i just need concise points. and of i am asking for an essay there wouldn't be any guiding qns.
alisonfaith297 posted over a year ago
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thanks for your help anyways;D
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Szayelapporro said:
i really dont know that this will help you any but... I also have found that girls are most likely to be given up for adoption. I am a homosexual guy and me and my partner adopted a baby girl from an orphanage in our area and we went through meeting several of the choices before we decided and MOST of the population was girls......it is a very cruel world and yes females are underestimated in the world b/c they are deemed "weak" "inferior" "fragile" i guess the sexism thing started with the bible itself when everyone saw that Eve was made from Adam......strange how a misunderstanding in religion can create sooooooo much chaos...
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thanks for your help :D
alisonfaith297 posted over a year ago
samuraibond005 said:
It is rare to see a place where such "Gendercide" occurs, however the one place that I can think of is China, and that is simply because a girl cannot carry the family name when she gets married. I understand the logic behind this and I don't honestly think that is the root of the problem, the root of the problem is the government's one child policy. A family is only allowed one child and the people feel that if it is a girl then that will be the end of their family name. (It won't always be true but I can see where the idea comes from.)

Now, as for female discrimination, a tribe in ancient Europe called the Amazon was led primarily by females, only females could be warriors, only females could have a life, only females could do anything. Truth be told it was one of the most powerful tribes of its time.
The Amazon wasn't the only tribe that allowed women to be warriors, in Japanese history, there where female samurai, it was just such a small minority that hardly anyone really payed any attention to it, but I won't deny the bias that was there, woman samurai had to fight twice as hard to earn half of the respect, and that is how society tends to be in the western world.
I would also like to point out that there is more bias than just against women, there is racial bias, religious bias, and sexual bias. Personally I think the sexual bias is a little bit more of a problem than the gender bias, so I am more likely to want to focus on that.
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thank you so much!! thats was extremely helpful!
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