| India's aggressive move in promoting the | | | | |
| childcare for Indian daughters is truly a big | | | | Indian females in the 21st century should not |
| help to extinguish discrimination in the | | | | only be seen as homemakers and followers of |
| country. It is about time to give importance | | | | their husbands, but also as career women with |
| and value the existence of the female | | | | the capacity to improve their status in life. |
| population in the region. After all, what men | | | | |
| can do, women can deliver as well. | | | | If the cases of millions of Indian female |
| | | | fetus abortions were true in the past 20 |
| Having the notion that males are a dominant | | | | years, as what The Lancet calculated, these |
| figure in India and all other rights solely | | | | could indeed be blamed for the gender |
| provided to them is unfair to the female | | | | imbalance that the country is currently |
| population. Such continuing gender disparity | | | | facing in some states. Many Indian female |
| among Indian families is not a good sign for | | | | leaders could have been born and could have |
| a developing country. But the recent move of | | | | helped their poor families to get out of |
| Renuka Chowdhury, India's minister for women | | | | poverty. |
| and child development, is an empowering sight | | | | |
| for Indian daughters. | | | | An initial payment of 15,500 rupees will be |
| | | | given to the poor families who will be |
| The barely £1,500 government's help for | | | | willing to raise a daughter. When she reaches |
| Indian poor families to take good care of | | | | 18, the family will be given 100,000 rupees |
| their daughters instead of simply aborting | | | | should she be able to meet certain criteria |
| them upon conception will mitigate the long | | | | set and remains unmarried. |
| story of preference to males. India should | | | | |
| realize that to be a female does not make you | | | | In doing so, Chowdhury anticipates that this |
| a weaker gender. The country's culture on | | | | effort will change the perception among |
| males as a stronger gender and also a | | | | Indian daughters as asset rather than merely |
| breadwinner making the life of the female | | | | a liability in the household. |
| population helpless should be eradicated. | | | | |