Gender Inequalities and Sex-Differential Mortality in Pre-War Greece: A Regional Perspective
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Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, 81132 Mytilene, Greece
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National Centre for Social Research, Institute of Social Research, 10551 Athina, Greece
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Genealogy 2022, 6(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6010005
Received: 13 October 2021
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Revised: 24 December 2021
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Accepted: 27 December 2021
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Published: 4 January 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The History of Family in Late Modern and Contemporary Europe through the Eyes of Historical Demography)
Previous studies have indicated gender-based discriminatory practices as a result of son preference up to the first half of the 20th century in Greece. Demographic indices calculated from published vital statistics, such as sex ratios at birth and at childhood, were distorted to such an extent that certain scholars suggest that this distortion was due to sex-selective infanticide and neglect of the girls. Although we cannot exclude this possibility, the aim of this paper is to assess to what extent under-registration of female births (in the civil registration system) and under-enumeration of females (in censuses) accounted for the skewed sex ratios and to pinpoint that gender-based discrimination was not the same all over Greece. There were areas in insular Greece, notably the Ionian islands and the Aegean Archipelago, and one area in mainland Greece (Epirus) where demographic indices imply that gender inequalities were less acute. On the other hand, there were areas in mainland Greece, notably in Thessaly, where sex-differential mortality denotes extremely unequal treatment of girls.
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Gavalas VS, Baltas P. Gender Inequalities and Sex-Differential Mortality in Pre-War Greece: A Regional Perspective. Genealogy. 2022; 6(1):5. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6010005
Chicago/Turabian StyleGavalas, Vasilis S., and Pavlos Baltas. 2022. "Gender Inequalities and Sex-Differential Mortality in Pre-War Greece: A Regional Perspective" Genealogy 6, no. 1: 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6010005
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