Spark: India plans to incentivize female births

By giving a girl’s family [...] financial benefits worth around $5,000, including health insurance, until she is 18, if she is sent to school and remains unmarried.I think this is a great idea, but I’m sure that the anti-feminists will spin it (they think that girls are more valuable than boys!!!). I also find it interesting that it tacitly incentivizes educating female children and delaying marriage (till, you know, she’s an adult…).

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1 JohnW // Oct 5, 2008 at 1:45 pm

Recently read an article which I won’t take the time to find about the balance of power shifting to Chinese women due to the unbalanced m/f ratio. Something about how urban women almost require a man to be a property owner in order to even consider him as a potential husband.

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