The Indian government has tried to improve the status of women through all of the following policies except __________.

The government has used programs such as women’s clubs, healthcare services, and literacy and skills-development initiatives to support women. It has not required families to have one female child; that would be a compulsory family-composition rule, not a policy for improving women’s status. Therefore, the exception is “requiring families to have one female child.”

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