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  • noun The killing of people because of their gender.

Etymologies

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gender +‎ -cide

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Examples

  • The killing of women - rightly described as "gendercide" - is occurring in the hundreds of millions, a statistic that can hardly be comprehended in the West.

    William Petrocelli: The Most Important Book of the Year 2009

  • Reading the world with Wole Soyinka, Kishwar Desai and Jason Wallace - podcast the Costa book of the year, we track two of the contenders across continents. we go to Delhi ask Kishwar Desai why she decided to make "gendercide" - the killing of girl babies - the subject of her first novel Witness the Night.

    The Guardian World News Claire Armitstead 2011

  • We go to Delhi to ask Kishwar Desai why she decided to make "gendercide" - the killing of girl babies - the subject of her first novel, Witness the Night.

    The Guardian World News Claire Armitstead 2011

  • In the under-20 age group, there are 32 million excess males in China today, and this imbalance, partially the product of "gendercide," has already resulted in increased prostitution, elevated HIV-infection rates and renewed trafficking in females.

    Beijing's Plan For National Decline 2010

  • In the under-20 age group, there are 32 million excess males in China today, and this imbalance, partially the product of "gendercide," has already resulted in increased prostitution, elevated HIV-infection rates and renewed trafficking in females.

    Beijing's Plan For National Decline 2010

  • To read Johann's latest article for Slate - about the "gendercide" that has killed more women than all the wars of the twentieth century - click here.

    Johann Hari: We Must Stop the "Vulture Funds" That Feed on the World's Poor 2009

  • This "gendercide" instantaneously exterminated 48% of the global population... 495 of the Fortune 500 CEOs are now dead, as are 99% of the world's landowners.

    From Comic-Con to Econ, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • To read Johann's latest article for Slate - about the "gendercide" that has killed more women than all the wars of the twentieth century - click here.

    Johann Hari: Why Have We Stopped Raging Against the Sick, Sick Fashion Industry? 2009

  • According to the authors, "More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century."

    William Petrocelli: The Most Important Book of the Year 2009

  • He is also trying, with a bioengineer who may be responsible for the worldwide "gendercide," to figure out why he survived; hoping to reach his girlfriend in Australia; and, of course, contemplating the repopulation of the planet.

    Just finished M-mv 2008

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