Female genital cutting is not a social coordination norm

• Autores: Charles Efferson, Sonja Vogt, Amy Elhadi
• Localización: Science, ISSN 0036-8075, Vol. 349, Nº 6255, 2015, págs. 1446-1447
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The World Health Organization defines female genital cutting as any procedure that removes or injures any part of a female's external genitalia for nonmedical reasons (1). Cutting brings no documented health benefits and leads to serious health problems. Across six African countries, for example, a cohort of 15-year-old girls is expected to lose nearly 130,000 years of life because of cutting (2). We report data that question an influential approach to promoting abandonment of the practice.