Over a million females a year are eliminated to avoid having to pay dowry costs when they marry...despite dowries now being illegal and the President being a woman.  This is sickening.

 

[Alas, The link did not post and I am unable to recover it from HULU.  It was part of the series:  http://www.hulu.com/cnbc-originals  I find it interesting that it is the only episode that does not show up on the list now, even though I have restored the series.  Did "someone" have it removed?  Seems like one heck of a coincidence to me. ]

 

This post was edited by wendy larsen at February 13, 2012 8:24 PM GMT

It is, and it's not the only country in the world where there is such a shocking attitude and inhumane treatment of females born (or aborted) in a male-preferred society.
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Darn, my link did not post. Here is another I found today.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/11/world/asia/india-baby-falak/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
"A 2011 TrustLaw danger poll ranked India as the fourth most dangerous place on earth for women, behind Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Pakistan.

The survey said 100 million women and girls are involved in prostitution and 50 million are "missing" in the last century because of female feticide and infanticide. Almost 45% of girls are married off before they reach adulthood."

I have requested info from CNBC on the missing episode. I am also planning to link some more, related stories, here. http://www.economist.com/node/15606229 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/women-pregnant-girls-pressured-abortions-india/story?id=15103950 Some of the material from the above link is familiar information from the missing CNBC episode. Could I be wrong about where I saw the episode?  I do not think so, but....  

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/12/all-those-little-faces-elizabeth-vargas-explores-indias-gendercide/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6dR2o15xc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendercide Despite the missing episode of CNBC ORIGIONALS, there are many references to this issue, in India and elsewhere, online. China also has a large problem in this area, not surprising in a country where population control is mandated by the Communist government.

This post was edited by wendy larsen at February 13, 2012 8:41 PM GMT

Chinese also let baby girls die in order to try get a boy with next pregnancy...they just take baby girls into nearest forest and let birds and animals get at them.

Thank you for clarifying that, Rose. I had meant to say that, like Indians, some Chinese kill female bablies AND the goverment has less than no reason to stop this behavior due to their population control goals.

Here is a news item from Canada - it deals with how some cultures regard Women.

"On Sunday (Jan 29), a jury in Kingston, Ont., found a Montreal couple and their son guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of four family members. Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed, were each handed an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. They were accused of drowning Hamed's three teenage sisters and his father's first wife from a polygamous marriage, in what the judge described as crimes stemming from a "twisted concept of honour." "In the case of this family, when they came to Canada (from Afghanistan) and the daughters were beginning to integrate into behaviour that was not acceptable [to their family], it was a threat to the patriarchal structure of the family,"

 

This post was edited by Doanna Highland at February 14, 2012 4:48 AM GMT

we have these so-called honour killings regularly in UK.

This sickens my heart and spirit to know that a fellow human can treat another person in such a callouse and brutal manner. This is supposed to be a modern age where people are treated accordingly, not the 17-1800's where this type of behaviour was rampant.

Genevieve, ill treatment of Women has not changed much at all. - but in our "enlightened age of Political correctness", it is considered "racist" or "hateful" to speak out against any culture that treats women like Chattel or second class citizens

Call me a hateful racist, the medieval treatment and the attitude that women are worthless second-class citizens in the 21st century is shameful. These aspects of Sharia law, societal pressures in India and China and so on and so on are twisted, disgraceful, and simply wrong.
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This post was edited by Lucy Diamond at February 15, 2012 10:44 AM GMT