'Missing Women' in the South Caucasus : Local Perceptions and Proposed Solutions
This report, Europe and Central Asia - Missing Women in the South Caucasus : Local perceptions and proposed solutions, discusses research conducted on skewed sex ratios in the South Caucasus. It discusses (i) the factors that encourage sex selectio...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24087119/europe-central-asia-missing-women-south-caucasus-local-perceptions-proposed-solutions http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22506 |
| Summary: | This report, Europe and Central Asia -
Missing Women in the South Caucasus : Local perceptions and
proposed solutions, discusses research conducted on skewed
sex ratios in the South Caucasus. It discusses (i) the
factors that encourage sex selection in Armenia, Azerbaijan
and Georgia, (ii) whether and how these might be changing;
(iii) public awareness of and attitudes regarding skewed sex
rations; and to propose potential policy responses. The
report examines the following: factors contributing to
smaller families and unbalanced sex rations in the South
Caucasus, the reasons for underlying son preference,
attitudes toward daughters, factors that make women
vulnerable to pressures to produce sons. It also describes
how intergenerational and gender relationships are starting
to change and proposes some recommendations for addressing
the factors that underlie unbalanced sex rations. |
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