Case of the Missing Women
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- They often don't have a say in choosing a life-partner - They're often don't have a say in pursuing higher studies
Public(free) health/education is utmost importance. Even most Govt. primary school teachers send their kids to private schools, others don't have private schools near by.
These issues are not black/white like most microbial diseases.
India is a democracy; democracies are flawed coz, like everywhere else power attracts corrupt people; and corrupt fight bloody.
Does health of NGOs in a country and their ability to influence Govt. policies within a term(4-5yrs) tells us more about a Country?
Do men have?
Two of my (male) Indian coworkers had their wives selected for them by their parents, even though they were working abroad.
the other possibility is that these towns have some messed laws that encourages people to not register their daughter’s birth. this is an issue in many countries and people just ignore these rules and just register their kids in the most beneficial way. of course racist people will take this and claim misogyny.
there is a logical disconnect of people stereotyping countries with the largest population as mistreating females. the lack of critical thinking is appalling. it takes nearly a year to birth a child and requires that the female is a willing participant. they have done this more times in india than in most other countries.
It's definitely not playing nicely with our modern sensitivity.
Some articles that got me thinking : https://www.ft.com/content/d44122c0-a435-11e5-873f-68411a84f...
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2017/11/23/a-distor...
I for one would not like to have been born just to provide money to my family, and sadly money is in the center of the problem as the statistics shows.
But the crux of the discussion is that we want humans to be treated like humans. Having both men and women being walking pension plans in the possession of their parents is not a big improvement all things considered. A better solution is to enable people to survive growing old without depending on offsprings to support them, and that require us to look at the money issue. A solid pension system and universal health care does wonders to a lot of issues in society, and looking at countries with both these I see a distinct decrease of problems that occur because parents uses their children as financial support systems.
you'll also get the full love of your parents. you are first, your sisters are second. your wife will be more important to your parents than your sisters are. the difference is noticeable. though you may not notice it as your sisters will be married and get the same treatment from their husbands family.
your parents will provide for you as long as they can, and then when they no longer can, it's your turn to provide for them, and for your children. but by then your parents will have done more for you than most western parents would have.
your parents don't have pensions they can live off. neither will you. so one day your children will take care of you...
What a way to phrase things. I really wonder how this article is relevant to HN?
There was a quite active discussion on the topic of demographics in india yesterday [0], that also contains this link as a sub-thread.
FT's article on 'missing brides' : https://www.ft.com/content/d44122c0-a435-11e5-873f-68411a84f...
I can't judge people living in other parts of the world. But I know that massive populations ruled by a single government don't work. There's no reason 1/6 of the world should be under the control of a single government. They need to decentralize and maybe create a federation of independent states.
[1] By that I mean: Mutation are not "created" by the environment. Evolution theory shows that we "select" mutation which will then become present in the majority of the population over several generation (provided that the mutation can be passed to offspring and yield a significant benefit that will last over several generation).
Mutation happens all the time in your body, although, if i remember my high school biology class, most of them get "fixed". And mutation are only one of the many "tools" that help create diversity (chromosome recombination for example).
Outside of fiction - no.
It's the opposite, actually.
It is evolutionarily favorable to give birth to the sex that is less numerous at sexual maturity. If female babies started dying, for whatever reason, the chance the average baby is female would gradually increase until the ratio of sexually mature females to males balanced out.
Incidentally, this is presumably why there are slightly more males born than females [1] - males tend to die more frequently than females during childhood.
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio
> In humans, the natural ratio between males and females at birth is slightly biased towards the male sex, being estimated to be about 1.05[2] or 1.06[3] males/per female born.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but how does the human body have internal knowledge of the current gender ratio in society such that it will attempt to fix the ratio to balance?
It doesn't.
This process happens strictly through natural selection.
If average female fertility is F, the number of sexually mature females is f and the number of sexually mature males is m, then the average male fertility is F * f / m (each child is conceived by exactly one male and one female). This means that the less numerous sex has a higher fertility.
It is not true that each child is equally likely to be male or female. Some parents are more predisposed to have male children and some parents are more predisposed to have female children. The parents predisposed to have more reproductively successful children will have their genes flourish - pushing the sex balance of new babies slightly in the corrective direction.
Somewhere in the past our ancestors evolved a male counterpart to enable sexual reproduction.
Weren't there no "gender" nor "female" before sexual reproduction evolved ?
The above is numbers from one dairy farm I know of with ~3000 cows. I'm sure each farm is different.
I also wonder if in the future chicken farms will apply this when the technology get more refined, the patents expires and the cost of artificial insemination is cheaper than wasting time and resources on eggs only to then kill half the offsprings.