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Unnatural Selection Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men

Mara Hvistendahl

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Lianyungang, a booming port city, has China's most extreme gender ratio for children under four: 163 boys for every 100 girls. These numbers don't seem terribly grim, but in ten years, the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. By the time those children re...

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Freakonomics Radio

It was discussed as a book about the consequences of the skewed male-to-female birth ratio in Asia, particularly in China, due to sex-selective abortions and other factors.

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When Vistendahl first moved to China in 2004, she noticed something strange.

— Episode: 46. Misadventures in Baby-Making

Episode: 46. Misadventures in Baby-Making

It was discussed as a book about the consequences of the skewed male-to-female birth ratio in Asia, particularly in China, due to sex-selective abortions and other factors.

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When Vistendahl first moved to China in 2004, she noticed something strange.

The fact that you could go to a school and look at a classroom in an elementary school usually, and you just see many more boys than girls.

I am a Beijing-based correspondent with Science Magazine and the author of Unnatural Selection, Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.

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