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Make all Indian women more independent and self-reliant.

- They often don't have a say in choosing a life-partner - They're often don't have a say in pursuing higher studies

Public(free) health/education is utmost importance. Even most Govt. primary school teachers send their kids to private schools, others don't have private schools near by.

These issues are not black/white like most microbial diseases.

India is a democracy; democracies are flawed coz, like everywhere else power attracts corrupt people; and corrupt fight bloody.

Does health of NGOs in a country and their ability to influence Govt. policies within a term(4-5yrs) tells us more about a Country?

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> - They often don't have a say in choosing a life-partner

Do men have?

Two of my (male) Indian coworkers had their wives selected for them by their parents, even though they were working abroad.

this is a hit piece. it is likely that they either manipulated the time period in which the data was taken or they cherry picked the towns the took the data from. most likely they did both. with a population of over a billion. it is easy to manipulate population numbers. what they did is find towns with only one or two births for a given time period and selected a time period that would push their narrative.

the other possibility is that these towns have some messed laws that encourages people to not register their daughter’s birth. this is an issue in many countries and people just ignore these rules and just register their kids in the most beneficial way. of course racist people will take this and claim misogyny.

there is a logical disconnect of people stereotyping countries with the largest population as mistreating females. the lack of critical thinking is appalling. it takes nearly a year to birth a child and requires that the female is a willing participant. they have done this more times in india than in most other countries.

manipulated numbers to what end? you think the gender disparity is not real? china has the same disparity. you can find it in official reports by the chinese government. so it's real, all right. why would india not have the same problem? do you have evidence for your claim?

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