Gendercide is a neologism that refers to the systematic killing of members of a specific sex.

Gendercide is reported to be a rising problem in several countries. Census statistics report that in countries such as China and India, the male to female ratio is as high as 120 men for every 100 women. In addition to gender-selected abortions, gendercide also takes the forms of infanticide, and lethal violence against a particular gender at any stage of life.

The term gendercide was first coined by American feminist Mary Anne Warren in her 1985 book, Gendercide: The Implications of Sex Selection. It refers to gender-selective mass killing. Warren drew "an analogy between the concept of genocide" and what she called "gendercide." In her book, Warren wrote:

By analogy, gendercide would be the deliberate extermination of persons of a particular sex (or gender). Other terms, such as "gynocide" and "femicide," have been used to refer to the wrongful killing of girls and women. But "gendercide" is a sex-neutral term, in that the victims may be either male or female. There is a need for such a sex-neutral term, since sexually discriminatory killing is just as wrong when the victims happen to be male. The term also calls attention to the fact that gender roles have often had lethal consequences, and that these are in important respects analogous to the lethal consequences of racial, religious, and class prejudice.

Phil Valentine is an American conservative talk radio show host in Nashville, Tennessee. He broadcasts daily on flagship station WWTN, a Cumulus Media station, from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Central Time and is syndicated through Dial Global on over 110 radio stations. He is probably best known in Tennessee for leading protests against a state income tax.

Valentine is the son of former six-term Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Valentine of North Carolina, but is nonetheless a self-described conservative. His mother is the late Betsy Valentine who was killed in an auto accident one month shy of Valentine's 22nd birthday. He grew up in Nashville, North Carolina, and graduated from Northern Nash High School. After attending East Carolina University, he decided on a career in radio. ECU did not offer a broadcast major so Valentine left the university and enrolled in Carolina School of Broadcasting in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Valentine is the author of three books, The Conservative's Handbook, Right from the Heart: The ABC's of Reality in America, and Tax Revolt. Mr. Valentine was very active as a community organizer for the people of Tennessee to stop the passage of this bill against their wishes as citizens of that state. The Conservative's Handbook is a revision of Right from the Heart with new chapters and updated information. The foreword for both books was written by Sean Hannity.

Tracey Spicer (born 1967) is an Australian journalist and media personality, who worked as a national presenter for Network Ten's news bulletins Ten Weekend News, Ten Morning News and Ten Late News - Weekend Edition in the 1990's and 2000's. Prior to presenting the national news, Spicer co-hosted Ten News at Five in Brisbane from 1994-1995.

Spicer attended high school in Brisbane and graduated at the top of her class. She received a Bachelor of Business in communications from the Queensland University of Technology.

She began her career at the Macquarie National News service providing reports to the Brisbane station 4BH, then became chief police reporter and morning news editor at Melbourne station 3AW. Spicer then moved on to television: first reporting on courts and industry for Southern Cross Television, then hosting Melbourne Extra on the Nine Network affiliate in Melbourne, GTV, and reporting from Melbourne for the National Nine News. ATV, the Network Ten station in Melbourne, later hired Spicer as a local correspondent before promoting her to the national Ten Weekend News in 1995, which in the same year she began presenting the Weekend Bulliten(s) of Ten Late News until it was axed in 2005. Until 2006, Spicer would remain with Ten, and she became a newsreader of the Ten Morning News in 1999. She would continue to present both Ten Morning News and Ten Weekend News until the end of 2006. For the World Wildlife Fund, Spicer produced a documentary in 2001 about fresh water shortages in deforested areas of Papua New Guinea.

Rita Banerji is an author, photographer and gender activist from India. Her non-fiction book Sex and Power: Defining History, Shaping Societies was published by Penguin Books, India, in 2008. She is the founder of The 50 Million Missing Campaign , a grassroots, advocacy campaign, supported by an online community,to raise global awareness about the ongoing female gendercide in India.

Banerji was born and raised in India. Her family moved frequently and so she grew up in 17 towns around the country. At age 18, she moved to the U.S., where she attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and later, The George Washington University in Washington D.C.

Banerji started her career as an environmentalist. Her field of specialization was in Conservation Biology. In 1995 she received the Amy Lutz award in Plant Biology from the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) in Washington D.C. for her Ph.D. thesis work on the effects of acid rain on seed germination and seedling establishment of Zea mays (corn) . Other awards and recognitions she has received include : Morgan Adams Award in Biology for Ph.D. Research; Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Associate member; Botanical Society of America’s Young Botanist Recognition Award; Charles A. Dana^{[disambiguation needed]} Fellowship for Research in Ecology; Howard Hughes Grant for research in genetics. She is also received an award for Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges in recognition of outstanding merit. Many of Banerji’s projects had a gender perspective. She has worked with the Chipko women’s grassroots movement in India, under the tutelage of eco-feminist Vandana Shiva. She has also worked with the policy think tanks, the Institute for Policy Studies and The World Resources Institute in Washington D.C.