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Focuses on China's effort to stop sex-selection abortions and reverse the birth imbalance between boys and girls in the country. Government aid provided to families with one daughter or more; Test program introduced under which rural elderly people are receiving annual pensions of $180 if they had only one child or if they had daughters.

The article focuses on ultrasound machines manufactured by the General Electric Co. and their impact on an uneven sex ratio in infants in India. India has attempted to stop ultrasound from being used as a tool to determine a fetus' gender and has passed laws forbidding doctors from disclosing fetal sex. Despite this, the availability of ultrasound has led to an increase in males being born since many Indian women who find through ultrasound that they are pregnant with a girl choose to abort.

The article discusses South Korean men looking outside the country for spouses. South Korea has a surplus of bachelors, a lack of marriageable women, and women who generally have achieved a rising social status, so there is a thriving international marriage industry in that country. Bachelors from other Asian nations with a traditional preference for male children are also finding a diminished pool of women.

Focuses on the elimination of certain men's sports at many U.S. colleges. Teams that are being eliminated, including track and field, wrestling, tennis and gymnastics; Reasons for the trend; Impact of a law known as Title IX, that requires colleges to maintain a ratio of male to female athletes that reflects the gender ratio of the student population; Why collegiate sports such as football remain well-funded; Mention of the University of Vermont's decision to cut its men's track team.