Women have been classified as members of household and should therefore remain there. This view on females has been widespread and is largely stereotypical. Gender discrimination transpires in most countries, developing countries in particular, and seems to be viral in effect making girls as the most victims.
One of the most demoralizing events in the lives of girls and women in developing countries is being discriminated. Millions of individual tragedies have become the result of such incident. As a fact, studies reveal that there is a direct connection or bond between a country's approach toward women and its social and economic development. Hence, the condition of women is fundamental to a society's situation.
In 2010, the United Nations Development Program has released a report stating that Asia leads the highest male-female sex ratio at birth in the world. Meanwhile, sex-selective abortion and infanticide leaves a track of 96 million missing women in some countries. This goes to show that even before birth, women are being discriminated.
Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of baby girls due to male baby preference of parents, as may have been dictated by the society where they belong. Low importance accompanied by the birth of females also has bearing in female infanticide. In intense cases, baby girls are being killed long enough even when they are still on the mother's womb because of the common notion that girls are servants of household.
With the advent of technologies, determining the gender of fetus has become a lot easier. Sex-selective abortion then happens to female fetuses because of male baby preference.
Cultural norms play important roles in gender discrimination. It is because people tend to follow the trends and practices in the community where they belong. There are few countries who give more importance to males as they refer to them as "assets" of the family because they can earn and support the family for a living. Females, on the other hand, are tagged as "liabilities" of the family because they will only marry and will not be able to contribute to the earnings of their family.
One of the unending repercussions of unsuccessful sex-selective abortion is abuse. Girls are more open to possibilities of abuse when parents failed to terminate or stop the conception of girl fetus. Physical harms follow the lives if girls throughout their lives which most of the time become the primary reason of psychological implications or trauma.
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