Women In China

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Currently in China 120 boys are born for every 100 girls. 37 million more men than women live in China. The result of these shocking numbers is the result of China's One-Child policy, which increased families preference for male children than female, as male is considered to be the main income earner and family caretaker. In China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed only because of their gender. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world because of ‘gendercide’. Gendercide is defined as “the systematic extermination of particular gender”. Sex-selective abortion (in many cases even forced abortion), abandonment, neglect, and murder of an infant are disturbingly common in China.
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