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What creates this imbalance? Don't more men die from accidents, and there's a slightly lower (like 0.5%) number of male people born? Is there some part of the c
by tibbon 4y ago
What creates this imbalance? Don't more men die from accidents, and there's a slightly lower (like 0.5%) number of male people born? Is there some part of the country with far more women?
- 988747 4y agoAccess to abortion creates the imbalance. Indian women are much more likely to terminate pregnancy when they are expecting a girl.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoWomen not having equal rights and opportunities is what creates the incentive to terminate pregnancies when expecting a girl.
- giantg2 4y agoAccording to the article, it's the cultural expectation that the bride's family pays for the wedding etc.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThat would fall under not having equal rights or opportunities.
- giantg2 4y agoThey are separate. You can have the same rights and opportunities and have cultural expections. Paying for marriage is not required, but something the families choose to do. The woman has every right not to participate in that and must consent to the marriage for it to take place.
- wiradikusuma 4y agoNot disagreeing with you about equality, but in many other areas it's on the groom, yet I don't think any pregnant lady would think, "Shit my baby is boy/girl. I don't want to pay for his/her wedding. Better abort now."
- spywaregorilla 4y agoThe dowry equivalents and what not can cost as much as a house
- mathieuh 4y agoSo it's not access to abortion creating the imbalance then. It's Indian women's preference for male children.
- ronnier 4y agoNaturally more males are born, something like 5%. Combined with India having a history of aborting female babies
- snovv_crash 4y agoOlder men date younger women, so particularly at younger age brackets you find more single men than women.
- seydor 4y agoyou imply that they date/marry multiple women, or else the math doesnt work out
- snovv_crash 4y agoNo, there are a bunch of old single women to balance the young single men.
- red_trumpet 4y ago> and there's a slightly lower (like 0.5%) number of male people born? What region are you talking about? At least globally, there seem to be more men born than women.[1] Also seems to hold for the US[2]. [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Global_Population-Pyramid-1950-to-2100.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Global_P... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA_Population_Pyramid.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA_Population_Pyramid.sv...
- tibbon 4y agoI had always heard there were more women, but I stand corrected! Thank you!
- peruvian 4y agoWest Coast imbalance is due to industries (tech, military, planes etc.). India probably because families didn't want daughters.