Female infanticide

Female foeticide taken together with large scale female infanticide, is a species of genocide that might be termed "gynecide".

In 1993, for one village in India it was estimated that four girls in ten were killed at birth. Social workers are reported as attempting to "bribe" parents not to kill their female children by offering them consumer and other goods. Female foeticide is a lucrative practice for medical doctors.

Selective murder of female babies has been practised in China for centuries. Since the 1990s and the wide availability of ultrasound equipment in China, female infanticide may have expanded. In 2003, so many female foetuses are aborted that one-sixth more boys are born in China than girls.

1. Violence against women
2. Sexual discrimination
3. Irresponsible scientific and technological activity
4. Infanticide
5. Deliberate unbalancing of sex ratio of births

1. Imbalance in the human sex ratio

1. Garbage babies

1. Unwanted female babies
2. Unethical practice of health professionals
3. Son-less families
4. Social subjugation of women
5. Sexism
6. Gender discrimination in developing countries

1. Human birth defects

1. Sex-selective abortions

1. Shortage of marriageable women

1. Using abortion for population control
2. Selectively killing female babies
3. Researching infant mortality
4. Preferring male progeny
5. Investigating institutionalized murder of female babies
6. Eliminating violence against women
7. Eliminating harmful traditional practices affecting health of women and children
8. Culling human populations

1. Murder
2. Killing

1. Female foeticide, India's 'ticking bomb'