Gender imbalance a threat to stability

In Kontominas’s (2007) article entitled “ Gender imbalance a threat to stability,” he points out that Asian women are at risk because of the gender imbalance. First of all she states that sex trafficking and violence are around women because the number of adult women are outweighed by that of men. Next, she claims that people in China, India, Nepal and Vietnam prefer a son to a girl so they use sex selection to chose which baby they want. Sex selection causes gender imbalance, so it should be prohibited. Third, he points out that just closer regulation of foetal-scanning services does not work very well. People should change their minds to increase the value of women and protect women’s rights.
First, sex trafficking and violence against are very common in Asia countries. I think government should use laws to protect women’s rights. By the way, people need to know laws and know how to use laws to strengthen their rights. The people in Asia cannot take education for each person so they don’t know laws either. Furthermore, the best way is improve people’s quality of behaviors, people should know how to treat people very kindly and respect others’ rights. Therefore, the violence will be reduced and women will feel safety in their normal life.

Second, sex selection is technology that is used in bad way. The baby is innocent; parents cannot decide whether they want it or not. 10 years ago, most Chinese people thought son was better because more boys meant more hands can help. Furthermore, some people think children can take care of them when they are old. I think the reason is low education and poorly. If people have enough food to eat, they will not care whether is a girl or son. The government should develop their economy and widespread education.

Finally, closing regulation of foetal-scanning services does not work very well. Protect women’ rights requires to changing people’s value of women. Men and women are equal; men cannot use violence because they are stronger than women. Government should use media to improve social moral standards. For example, if people see a guy is hitting a woman, they should prevent it. Women also can build organizations to protect their rights by themselves. People should know women are most important for society; they have the same value as men do.

In conclusion, if people get high education and have improved social moral standards, sex trafficking and violence against women will disappeared one day. In fact, the gender imbalance is in Asia because people are very poor and most cannot feed themselves. Government should use laws and media to change civic behaviors.