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    Gender disparity and intergenerational attitude towards girl child in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2013) Anita Singh; Sethi, Nishi
    The present study was conducted in Hisar and Jhajjar district of Haryana state. Dahima village from Hisar-I block of Hisar district and Sankhol village from Bahadurgarh block of Jhajjar district. A total sample of 480 respondents were selected randomly including 320 would be parents (equal number of male and female). Forty parents (40 male and 40 female) and 40 grandparents (40 male and 40 female) were purposively selected among already selected would be parents from both districts and villages. A set of independent variables and two dependent variables i.e. existing status of rural and urban families in view of gender perspective and intergenerational attitude towards girl child were selected. Socio-personal profile of respondents revealed that most of the would be parents were in age group between 19-22 years, unmarried, graduate, having no income and student. Parents belonged to age group of >49-55 years, had senior secondary level of education, having no income and home manager. Whereas, majority of grandparents belonged to age group >73-80 were illiterate and having no income. Most of the respondents belonged to high caste group, joint families of medium to large size, having high family educational status, low family income, their main family occupation was business, service and cultivation. Overall communication profile of respondents was medium to low. Most of the respondents were falling in medium category of change proneness, localites-cosmopolites and liberalism-conservatism. Majority of respondents knew about LADLI scheme but utilization of government’s scheme on girl child was negligible. In most of the families male had possession over productive resources. Ratio of male children was high in both generations, school dropout rate was more in girls, lack of resources and lack of interest were main reasons for school dropouts. Cooking activity, domestic roles and responsibilities and animal husbandry work mainly performed by female, on the other hand, decision making, social participation and agricultural domain dominated by male. Majority of would be parents had most favourable attitude towards girl child. Parents had favourable to most favourable attitude towards girl child whereas grand parents had favourable to most unfavourable attitude towards girl child. Attitude towards girl child was significantly associated with sex, family educational status, respondents’ education, family occupation, family income, mass media exposure, change proneness, localite cosmopolite and liberalism conservatism. Female respondents had more favourable attitude towards girl child. Significant difference in attitude towards girl child was found between three generations rural and urban background at 5% level, irrespective of generations.