{"id":937,"date":"2001-06-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/06\/24\/2001-06-24-the-plight-of-the-girl-child\/"},"modified":"2001-06-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-06-24T12:00:00","slug":"2001-06-24-the-plight-of-the-girl-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/06\/24\/2001-06-24-the-plight-of-the-girl-child\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plight of the Girl Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.timesofindia.com\/today\/23indi9.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI &#038; TAMIL NADU, INDIA, June 23, 2001: They are calling it &#8220;the cause of the girl child.&#8221; Organizations such as the National Commission for Women, UNICEF and the Indian Medical Association, collaborating in their campaign against the gender bias, have invited religious leaders to participate in a national convention on Sunday, June 24th. Alarmingly, the latest census figures have shown a steady decrease in the female population in all the states of India. Averaging 927 female children per thousand male children in the zero- to six-year-old age group, some states fair even worse. Quoting the article, &#8220;Chandigarh has 773 females to 1000 males, Haryana 861, Punjab 874 and Uttar Pradesh 898.&#8221; Sanjiv Malik, secretary general of the IMA points out that the statistics clearly indicate that the girl child is being eliminated either before or after birth.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI &#038; TAMIL NADU, INDIA, June 23, 2001: They are calling it &#8220;the cause of the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}