Sources And References

Research study in 2005 by Caliper, a USA-based consulting firm, and Aurora, a UK-based firm, “How Women are Redefining Leadership;” Pew Research Center, 2008, “Men or Women: Who’s the Better Leader?”
2001 Census of India.
UNICEF Report: “State of the World’s Children – 2009.”
UNICEF India, Newsline: Roopa Bakshi, April 2006, “UNICEF Unveils New Tool to Combat Maternal Mortality in India.”
UNFPA Report: “State of World Population 2004, Adolescents and Young People: Key Health and Development Concerns.”
National Family Health Survey (2005 – 2006) Report.
Kalyani Menon-Sen and A. K. Shiva Kumar, 2001, “Women in India: How Free? How Equal?” A Report commissioned by the United Nations Resident Coordinator in India.
National Centre for Labour, 1999.
Srilata Swaminathan, “Female Foeticide: Facts and Figures.”
INCLEN Survey 2000, “Indian Studies of Abuse in the Family Environment, 1998 – 2000,” A study conducted by IndiaSAFE and the Indian branch of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN).
National Centre for Labour, 1999.
Aruti Nayar, The Tribune, May 6, 2001, “Silent Genocide.”
National Crime Records Bureau, 2007 statistics.
“45 Million Daughters Missing: A Compendium on Research and Intervention on Female Foeticide and Infanticide in India.” Published by IFES and EKATRA, funded by USAID (The United States Agency for International Development).
UNFPA Report, 1997, “India: Towards Population and Development Goals.”
UNICEF India, Child Sex Ratio (www.unicef.org/india/CHILD-SEX-RATIOin.pdf).
Valerie M. Hudson, Andrea M. den Boer, “Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population.”
Sakshi, 1998, “Justice on Gender.”
Rita Patel, Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, “The Practice of Sex Selective Abortion in India: May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons.”
Dr Meeta Singh, “Outcomes of the Dignity of the Girl Child Program” (Rajasthan University Women’s Association & IFES Initiative).
Rajesh Sinha, Indian Express, May 10, 1998, “After 115 Years a Village Celebrates the Wedding of a Girl it Did Not Kill.”
India Today, July 15, 2002, “Rural Women Start Successful Micro-Banking Scheme in Chattisgarh.”
India Today, May 1, 2009, Amitabh Srivastava, “Grit and Honey.”
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Times of India, April 10, 2009. Kiran Bedi was interviewed at the Launch of Laadli Week, a joint venture between Star Plus and Mahindra’s Nanhi Kali Project for educating the girl-child.
The Lancet, January 2006, “Low Male-to-Female Sex Ratio of Children Born in India: National Survey of 1.1 Million Households.”
Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor, January 13, 2006, “India’s ‘Girl Deficit’ Deepest Among Educated.”
UNICEF Report: “State of the World’s Children, 2007, Women and Children: The Double Dividend of Gender Equality.”
Tim Sullivan, News Plus, April 17, 2008, “India Surges, But Shackles Of Sex-Selection Remain.”
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BioEdge (BioEthics News from Around the World) May 2, 2007, “GE’s Ultrasound Machines and India’s Gendercide.”
UNFPA Report: “Missing: Mapping the Adverse Child Sex Ratio in India.”
Times of India, May 4, 2008, Kounteya Sinha, “Government Plans to Crack Down on Sex Determination Tests.”
Wall Street Journal, Peter Wonacott, April 19, 2007, “India’s Skewed Sex Ratio Puts GE Sales in Spotlight.”