{"id":12884,"date":"2021-11-27T06:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T06:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=12884"},"modified":"2021-11-27T06:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T06:58:36","slug":"for-the-first-time-india-has-more-women-than-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=12884","title":{"rendered":"**  For the first time, India has more women than men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parents in India have historically favoured sons over daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India has more women than men for the first time on record, according to government data that also showed a slowing birthrate in the world\u2019s second-most populous nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parents in India have historically favoured sons over daughters, who are often considered burdensome and costly due to the tradition of wedding dowries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents in India have historically favoured sons over daughters. India has more women than men for the first time on record, according to government data that also showed a slowing birthrate in the world\u2019s second-most populous nation. Parents in India have historically favoured sons over daughters, who are often considered burdensome and costly due to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=12884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  For the first time, India has more women than men<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazing-feats","category-records-india-national","category-women-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12887,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12884\/revisions\/12887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}