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Sex ratio at birth in China, with reference to other areas in East Asia: What we know
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Society-wide efforts are needed to emphasize the value of girls and women, and to promote true equality of the sexes.
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“Sex-selective abortion after ultrasonography undoubtedly accounts for a large proportion of the decline in female births. 20,21”
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“There was a high sex ratio in China in the 1930s and 1940s, mostly resulting from infanticide of girls, and then the ratio declined in the years after the Communist Revolution of 1949. 27”
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“Data from the 2001 National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Survey, which was carried out among a nationally representative sample of 39,600 women of reproductive age and is the most recent large-scale survey of reproductive health and fertility, show clearly that the increased sex ratio is not confined predominantly to rural China, 19 as has been previously assumed 20 (Table 2).”
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“Many other Asian countries with declining fertility rates and a traditional preference for males are also seeing sex-ratio imbalances - Taiwan, 1.19; Singapore, 1.18; South Korea, 1.12; and parts of northern India, 1.20 28 - largely because of sex-selective abortion. 27”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gu, B., & Roy, K.
- ORCID
- Gu, Baochang
- Venue
- Asia-Pacific Population Journal
- Publisher
- United Nations Publications
- Published
- 1995-08-17
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1-15
- ISSN
- 0259-238X (ISSN-L)
- 1564-4278
- OpenAlex
- W113924906
- Cited by
- 187
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 5.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Asia-Pacific population journal (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Keywords
- sex ratio at birth, sex-selective abortion, gender discrimination, gender equality, East Asia, China, women's status
- MeSH terms
- Asia, Behavior, China, Demography, Developing Countries, Family Characteristics, Family Relations, Asia, Eastern, Nuclear Family, Population, Population Characteristics, Psychology, Sex, Sex Factors, Sex Ratio, Social Values, Sex Distribution
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