Too many males in China: the causes and the consequences |
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| Authors: | Thérèse Hesketh |
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| Institution: | Worked with non-governmental and United Nations organisations in China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Laos as a clinical teacher, manager of health programmes and as a researcher. She is currently Senior Lecturer in International Health at University College London's Centre for International Health and Development. Her major interests are in issues of reproductive and population health in China. |
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| Abstract: | We expect that, roughly, as many boys will be born into the world as girls. However, in some places, social pressures combined with modern medicine seriously distort the ratio of the sexes. In China, there are a million excess male births each year. Thérèse Hesketh looks at what this will mean for the generation that lacks women. |
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