Gendercide

Gendercide

Introduction

Gendercide is a systematic mass killing of a selective gender. Mary Anne Warren was the person who first introduced the term in his book, named 'Gendercide: The Implications of Sex Selection'. Warren highlighted a comparison between the concepts of genocide and Gendercide. Genocide is the killing of a people from a particular ethnic group, whereas elaborating the concept of Gendercide; he mentioned that by it is the killing of a specific race of people (Meaney, 2006).

'Femicide' is the term used to elaborate the killing of girls and/or women's. However, Gendercide is a more general term which can be used for both males as well as females. The only thing that calls for the importance of Gendercide being used instead of Femicide is that there is a need for a sex-neutral term, specifically when the victims are male. The word Gendercide plays a nondiscriminatory part in this context. The term also tends to avoid any gender roles that might otherwise create lethal and negative consequences (Koenig, et al. 2003).

Gendercide issues have been seen in almost every culture, country, religion and socio-economic class. It can be seen in families, as well as in poor families. In reality, most of the time, young girls and more specifically baby girls who just entered into this world have to face this trend. There are several reasons and issues behind the killing of women; it will be discussed in the later part of the paper (Meaney, 2006).

The difficulty with building the concept of Gendercide is that the analysis of mass murder of men cannot be drawn, because there are very less coincidences of such events as compared to the killing of women in large numbers. It does not mean that killing of male genders are very few, however, most of the coincidences where it has occurred has been done by the state level, which is the reason why it has received little attention, as it must have received. Nevertheless, the killing of women is done on the mass level, especially in the underdeveloped areas.

Problems a Women is Facing

There are various problems a woman has to face in this society. However, we have to discuss the issues from the perspective of underdeveloped countries. Before pointing out the problems, first we must understand the concept of underdeveloped countries.

Underdeveloped countries are those who are classified as a poor nation, which seeks to expand its resources through industrialization. They also lack in providing basic needs of a human being to its nationals, such as food, water, shelter, education, health, and work.

Women in such underdeveloped countries face numerous kinds of issues, as compared to the women living in developed countries. It does not mean that women in developed countries do not face any of the issues. It is just because our focus is on the issues concerning underdeveloped countries. These issues might relate to social, economic, and political factors.

Social Problems

One of the key disappointing factors in the underdeveloped countries is that they are very much male dominant ...