Amazoncom women in india the problem of missing girl child 9788177084191 anand nishant books. The under enumeration of women was theoretically taken up for research and papers by well known researchers like leela visaria amartya sen and others revealed that this was not under enumeration but a problem of missing women who were not present due to female infanticide sex selective abortion girl child neglect etc. Nearly 14 million girls were missing at birth in 2008 in india half a million girls go missing at birth each year more than the number of girls born annually in the uk missing girls at birth is a result of sex selective abortions ssa which is the voluntary termination of pregnancy based on the anticipated or predicted sex of the child. Indias missing women research has cast fresh light on the massive and increasingly alarming phenomenon of sex selection in india a save the girl child poster at a delhi hospital