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/^t/Another part of the world worth mentioning while talking about women discrimination is India. Although the situation of women in this country is better than those Muslim women, it is still bad. First of all, giving birth to a baby girl is treated as a disaster for the whole family as her father would have to give her husband a dowry, which many a time exceeds ten years' income of the family. This situation led to massive killings of baby girls and abortions of female foetus. It resulted in a ridiculous situation: almost each Indian village has an ultrasonograph to check the sex of the foetus, but it still has not got running water. Girls are treated much worse than boys, yet they have still quite a lot of freedom. If their families are rich enough they can get all forms of education. Although it happens very seldom, they can perform top jobs, or be the head of the country, as, for example, Indira Ghandi was.