“Now it is Difficult to Get Married”: Jat Society and the Marriage Squeeze
<p>In 1990, the Nobel Prize winning Indian economist Amartya Sen published an essay in <em>The New York Review of Books</em> estimating that the world was missing 100 million, primarily Asian and Middle Eastern women. The main causes were attributed to the rise of sex selective abortions, which began in the 1970s, and a much older phenomenon of differential neglect towards female infants and children. Both factors were primarily the result of an extreme preference for sons in patriarchal cultures where norms dictated that men would bear the responsibility of caring for their elderly parents as well as carrying on the family name and lineage.</p>
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