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| Subject: Why the world is more dangerous with fewer girls Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:59 pm | |
| There is some optimism emerging from the latest study by the US National Bureau of Economic Research examining the ratio of men to women around the world. The World Bank expressed similar optimism in 2009.
Both institutions are buoyed by the partial reversal of South Korea's skewed child sex ratios, which had peaked in the mid-1990s at 116 boys per 100 girls.
South Korea's restored balance, while retaining a male dominance that remains above the accepted biological range (and with greater imbalances persisting among babies born to older mothers), is attributed to the simultaneous introduction of economic, social and legal initiatives.
Government policies that improved gender equality and promoted awareness-raising campaigns are also credited with fundamentally altering the country's underlying patriarchal norms.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/why-the-world-is-more-dangerous-with-fewer-girls-20130116-2ctp1.html#ixzz2ICKtsnGb
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