Female infanticide

Name(s): 
Killing of female infants
Institutionalized murder of female babies
Gynecide
Female foeticide
Nature 
Female foeticide taken together with large scale female infanticide, is a species of genocide that might be termed "gynecide".
Incidence 
In 1993, for one village in India it was estimated that four girls in ten were killed at birth. Social workers are reported as attempting to "bribe" parents not to kill their female children by offering them consumer and other goods. Female foeticide is a lucrative practice for medical doctors.

Selective murder of female babies has been practised in China for centuries. Since the 1990s and the wide availability of ultrasound equipment in China, female infanticide may have expanded. In 2003, so many female foetuses are aborted that one-sixth more boys are born in China than girls.

Broader 
Infanticide
Sexual discrimination
Violence against women
Deliberate unbalancing of sex ratio of births
Irresponsible scientific and technological activity
Narrower 
Imbalance in the human sex ratio
Reduces 
Human birth defects
Related 
Shortage of marriageable women
Aggravated by 
Sexism
Son-less families
Unwanted female babies
Social subjugation of women
Unethical practice of health professionals
Gender discrimination in developing countries
Reduced by 
Gender abortions
Strategy(ies) 
Eliminating violence against women
Using abortion for population control
Culling human populations
Preferring male progeny
Eliminating harmful traditional practices affecting health of women and children
Selectively killing female infants
Researching infant mortality
Investigating institutionalized murder of female babies
Value(s) 
Killing
Murder
Type 
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems