Development gender and development activity2

=Activity - Sex ratio and gender justice=

Estimated Time
one period

Materials/ Resources needed
Reading materials (including web links mentioned here) as an input to discussions

Prerequisites/Instructions, if any

 * 1) Allow students to bring up ideas for why India is seen as being 'under developed', and build on them.
 * 2) Encourage debate in the Indian and Karnataka context -
 * 3) compare sex ratios across states in India and across districts in Karnataka.
 * 4) Compare sex ratios across the decades (from census data).
 * 5) Compare sex ratios in 0-6 age group and across age groups
 * 6) Encourage all students to participate

Multimedia resources
Sex ratio in Haryana is skewed, creating serious social problems

Website interactives/ links/ simulations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_and_territories_ranking_by_sex_ratio

Process (How to do the activity)
Open ended discussion, with teacher probing and adding ideas and questions

Developmental Questions (What discussion questions)

 * 1) The sex ratio is often seen as an indicator of women's status. Why?
 * 2) The ratio is further decreasing when the economic status becomes better, in many cases (for e.g. Mandya which is relatively prosperous has a lower sex ratio). Why?
 * 3) What measures can the government take to improve the ratio? Analyse these over social, political, health aspects

Activity Keywords
To link back to the concept page Development