Also, here's where I have a problem with your link:
Thus far, female empowerment often seems to have led to more sex selection, not less. In many communities, she writes, “women use their increased autonomy to select for sons,” because male offspring bring higher social status. In countries like India, sex selection began in “the urban, well-educated stratum of society,” before spreading down the income ladder.
Female empowerment is to blame for missing women? Women use their "increased autonomy" to select for sons? At what point did women get increased autonomy in their patriarchal cultures? Does this author imagine that sex-selective abortion is entirely the domain of women? Research actually suggests that husbands and other relatives play a significant role in pushing women to abort female children. The family as a whole has much at stake. The arrival of abortion didn't change the status or empowerment of women at all - they're still subject to the rule of their husbands and husbands' families. This idea that sex-selective abortion is a problem because women were "empowered" with the option for abortion is repulsive. How can you recognize the patriarchal culture and preference for males on one hand, while ignoring the patriarchal restrictions on women's agency on the other?
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Thus far, female empowerment often seems to have led to more sex selection, not less. In many communities, she writes, “women use their increased autonomy to select for sons,” because male offspring bring higher social status. In countries like India, sex selection began in “the urban, well-educated stratum of society,” before spreading down the income ladder.
Female empowerment is to blame for missing women? Women use their "increased autonomy" to select for sons? At what point did women get increased autonomy in their patriarchal cultures? Does this author imagine that sex-selective abortion is entirely the domain of women? Research actually suggests that husbands and other relatives play a significant role in pushing women to abort female children. The family as a whole has much at stake. The arrival of abortion didn't change the status or empowerment of women at all - they're still subject to the rule of their husbands and husbands' families. This idea that sex-selective abortion is a problem because women were "empowered" with the option for abortion is repulsive. How can you recognize the patriarchal culture and preference for males on one hand, while ignoring the patriarchal restrictions on women's agency on the other?