Gender Equality

Another point to be made about the killing of girls in India and China is that this is most definitely not gender equality. Most people in the world believe that gender equality has greatly improved since the past, and it indeed has in many ways. However, if we are allowing for other countries to kill newborn children, have abortions, or abandon children just based on their gender then this is a huge step back from gender equality. In both of these countries female infanticide is socially acceptable and ignored by the government. Although China is having large issues with overpopulation there are many other ways to deal with this problem. The people in these countries could be better educated on pregnancy and given more resources for birth control like giving them condoms or giving women the birth control pill. Also, in India the government should be more involved with stopping female infanticide rather than ignoring it. These things could help lower the birth rate without having gendercide involved.