International Research Journal of Education and Technology

India has a long-standing preoccupation with male offspring and views the birth of a female as a poor investment in the future. Girls are viewed more as consumers than producers in Indian patriarchal society, and this restricted perspective has resulted in abhorrent behaviors like female infanticide and female foeticide. Female infanticide has been practiced in India for thousands of years, but with the increased availability of modern sex determination techniques such as amniocentesis and ultrasound, sex selective abortion has become common in most of India’s big cities. Women are under social pressure to have boys, and those who fail to do so often feel bad after having a daughter. Such women run the risk of being mistreated by their spouses and being abandoned. This might even result in rejection from the in-laws and from the wider community. The purpose of the current paper is to examine how society views female foeticide while keeping in mind the discussion from above.

Key Words: India, Patriarchy, Female foeticide, Discrimination, Violation, Society.