I’ve been asked by a friend to urge people to spare a moment of their time to fill in an anonymous gender survey being run by the campaign group 50m Missing.
The Indian group is working to raise awareness of a horrific gender bias that has developed in the country – where a historic cultural preference for boys is having a disastrous effect thanks to the development of ultrasound tests and selective abortions.
Indian law makes it illegal for parents to find out the gender of their unborn child, but rampant corruption means many bribe health workers and go ahead and abort. The result – when added to more longstanding problems like dowry murders and high maternal mortality rates – is an estimated 50m women missing from India’s 1bn-plus population. It’s an issue I’ve written about before.
The survey closes in one month and desperately needs more respondents. I’ve just filled it in in about one minute flat. It can be found here.