The war on baby girls

This week's edition of The Economist has a highly interesting, though disturbing feature on gendercide - the phenomenon of over 100 missing women, who have been killed, neglected to death or aborted because of continued societal preferences for boys. The situation is especially stark in countries like China, where research has found that there will be an extra 30 to 40 million of boys aged 19 and below by 2020. While the one child policy in China has contributed to this problem, other countries that do not have it still display unnaturally high ratios of boys to girls. They include Armenia, India, Taiwan, South Korea, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Serbia, among others. The consequences of this gender imbalance could be profound - resulting in increased violence and higher crime rates. This alone should be enough to convince societies to raise the value of girls.

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