Two Indian sisters 'gang-raped', killed and hanged from a tree

[LynneSin]

7. This is happening more and more thanks to decades of selective birthing in India

Even though technically the dowry system is illegal in India (a system where the parents of the daughter would pay the grooms family an crazy amount of money to allow their daughter to marry their son), there is still a major stigma in India for having baby girls. And for many regions of India they ignore the law anyway (and it's not enforced by local police)

The ratio of women to men in Indian is 940 women for every 1000 men. For a country with 1.2 billion people that means there are probably hundreds of thousands of men throughout India who aren't capable of finding a bride because there aren't enough women out there to marry. If you look at the link below you'll see that many of the northern states in India that number falls near or even below 900. BTW the state mention in the article, Uttar Pradesh, it's at 874 (and still not the lowest).

So imagine you're in a country and especially a region of a country where there just aren't enough women available to marry. Women can be a bit fussier now and some of these men just aren't desirable marriage material. I watched a documentry about this and there seems to be a bit of a 'gang' mentality with these men unable to find wives and that this might be the reason for the increase in violence towards women in India. It was also interesting when they interviewed mothers in Northern India who committed female infantcide. One woman gave birth to 6 girls in her lifetime and she felt it was easier just to leave them for dead than to burdern her family with the extra cost of raising a girl.

What's worse, another piece I watched on HBO's show Vice - the police are of little help to these women being raped. Because even with men unable to find wives they still think they are far superior than the women.

It's disgusting. I've included some good articles about this issue. Honestly I don't know how the problem will ever be solved as long as parents in India still perceive boys to be a better thing to have than girls.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_and_territories_ranking_by_sex_ratio

http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/indias-man-problem/

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/understanding-indias-rape-crisis/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/29/india-rape-victim-dies-sexual-violence-proble/