What is female gendercide?
Commonly called just "gendercide," the term refers to the elimination [...]
Females of what age?
Gendercide affects women of all ages but bears down especially [...]
Additional forms of gendercide: Dowry murders, feminicide, missing & murdered indigenous women, intimate partner violence, and honor killings
The most notorious form of gendercide is feminicide – the [...]
How many women are missing?
Thirty years ago, the Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen [...]
Haven’t I heard numbers higher than that?
Some scholars, reporters, and United Nations officers, have circulated the [...]
Where does gendercide occur?
Different forms of gendercide occur in different parts of the [...]
Where is it worst?
The number of women missing in a country can be [...]
Why are girls so unwanted?
In these societies, where there is little or no social [...]
What happens when men greatly outnumber women?
One might think that when men compete for a limited [...]
Has there been an official response to gendercide?
Yes, the United Nations (UN) monitors missing women and sex [...]