Spatial Patterning of Gender Discrimination in India: Impact of Social and Geographic Distances

Spatial patterning of gender discrimination in India. Impact of social and geographical distances.'” This paper offers a systematic exploration of the geography of child sex ratio in India. Mapping sex ratio on a micro-scale provides a starting point to assess its geographic patterning, followed by a geostatistical analysis of spatial dependence. The impact of distance on variations in levels of discrimination towards girls is then confronted with a comparable measurement based on socio-economic distance. The comparative analysis of the effects of social or space distance shows that geographical patterning plays a major role in regional variations in discriminatory behavior observed in contemporary India.