Technology-free obstetrics at the Semmelweis Clinic. Ask students about their preferences for daughters or sons, and the reasons for their preferences. Enhance the discussion with examples of gender preferences in other cultures. India is a culture that puts much pressure on women to produce sons instead of daughters. Daughters represent huge financial problems for families, as there will be a need to go into debt for a dowry.
Girls receive less education, less medical care, and less food than do boys.
Women's work includes fieldwork, housework, cooking, tending cows, making cow-dung cakes for fuel, and hauling water. Girls are often married before their adolescence, and beatings are a fairly routine aspect of marriage. Bumiller, E. 1990. May you be the mother of a hundred sons. Millions of daughters.