{"id":1794,"date":"2018-05-19T00:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2018-05-19T00:05:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:05:14","slug":"discrimination-against-young-girls-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/05\/19\/discrimination-against-young-girls-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination Against Young Girls in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/may\/15\/discrimination-deaths-girls-under-five-india-lancet-study<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of young girls in\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/india\">India<\/a>\u00a0die every year because of \u201cinvisible discrimination\u201d, according to research published in the Lancet Global Health.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis estimate an average of 239,000 girls under five in India die each year, or 2.4 million in a decade, because of their gender.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the deaths were due to neglect, both within their families and from health practitioners, as well as an \u201cinvisible, routine and continued\u201d, bias Indian girls experience in food allocation. Studies have shown that Indian girls receive less education, have poorer nutrition and get less medical attention than boys.<\/p>\n<div id=\"dfp-ad--inline1\" class=\"js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline1 ad-slot--rendered\">\n<div class=\"ad-slot__label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/may\/15\/discrimination-deaths-girls-under-five-india-lancet-study &nbsp; Hundreds of thousands of young girls in\u00a0India\u00a0die every year because of \u201cinvisible discrimination\u201d, according to research published in the Lancet Global Health. Researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis estimate an average of 239,000 girls under five in India die each year, or 2.4 million in a decade, because of their gender. Many of the deaths&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2018\/05\/19\/discrimination-against-young-girls-in-india\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}