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The article focuses on the dark secret of the egg industry, highlighting the widespread practice of chick culling, with over 300 million male chicks killed annually in the U.S., but an American egg producer plans to introduce new technology to avoid this outcome.

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.

Features a book about sex selection and ratio, "Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population," by Andrea M. den Boer and Valerie M. Hudson. Background of the book; Information about the link between sex ratios and security; Benefits of the book.

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Just days before President Obama's visit to India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his fourth - and perhaps most vital - reform aimed at economic [...]

In this article, the author comments on people mentality in India towards a girl child considering her a financial burden as dowries cost money, and mentions abortion of female foetuses affecting the sex ratio and an Indian law which bans doctors from disclosing the gender of unborn babies.

The article focuses on the bias favoring male gender resulting a skewed gender ratio within the Asian community as Asians abort the female babies before birth.

GPs are split over the Royal College of Physicians' comments that the increasing number of female doctors could undermine the profession's power and influence. The college's president, Professor Carol Black, [...]

The article offers sports news brief as of July 2012 on topics including proportion of male and female athletes in London Olympics 2012 and sanctions made by National Collegiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert against the football program at Penn State University.

The article reports on the 2011 India's Missing Girls walk event which was organized in San Francisco, California, against female infanticide and declining sex ratio in India. It is reported that, the event was organized by director of Petals in the Dust organization, Nyna Pais-Caputi, and around 10,000 dollars were collected to support the making of a documentary about female infanticide in India.

In this article the author discusses gender inequality in India, which is ranked by United Nations Development Program as one of the worst states in South Asia in terms of gender equality. He mentions that gender discrimination is profoundly impinged in Indian society and is reflected in the country's oblique sex ratio, high incidence of child marriage, and low literacy rate for women. He criticizes the Indian government's lack of political will to address these issues that hinder real progress.

The article argues against the decline of the child sex-ratio and its association with per capita income in India in 2015.

The author reflects on the role of the Internet and search engines in the crime of sex-selective abortion of girl children in India. Topics include the country's low and declining sex ratio, the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (Save the Daughter, Educate her) flagship campaign launched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to challenge the problem at its epicenter, and Internet advertisements of sex selection.

Several letters to the editor are presented on topics including the sex ratio in Asia, India and China are the contributors to the missing women of phenomenon in Asia, and the importance of the Chhau dance in the cultural heritage of West Bengal.

The article focuses on the abandonment of the 600-year-old tradition of banning marriages within similar clan in the Jaurasi-Fatehpur village in Haryana, India, in which the decision was driven by the low sex ratio.

The article offers news briefs on topics including the possible prosecution of Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and his brother Kalanithi as claimed by Indian Attorney General Mukul Rohtagi, rank of India in the United Nations Human Development Index, and the decline of Indian child sex ratio.

The article informs that according to Fairfield University professor Gita Rajan, who is project director of "Impact India 2021: Elevating the Value of Women and Girls in Society," India's sex ratio on imbalance leads to violence against women.

The article notes that gamblers in England have overwhelmingly bet that the first child of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge will be a girl, and discusses factors that seem to exert a measure of influence on an infant's gender.

The article reports on the strict measures taken by the Government of Bihar, India to improve imbalance in the sex ratio in the state. Topics discussed include the Supreme Court's guidelines against sex determination tests on ultrasound centres, organizing surprise checks into the suspected centres and verifying the tip-offs that the state health society has received over the telephone.

The article offers news brief of India as of May 10, 2013 which includes improvement in sex ratio, 26 tourists died in beaches in 2012 and increase in electricity rates.

The article offers information regarding diversities in the U.S. population by the year 2060 as predicted by the U.S. Census Bureau. It mentions that by 2060, none of the group will be in majority and non-Hispanic white population become the largest single group among all minorities groups. It informs that sex ratio will remain almost same for the population under the age of 18 and the population of Hispanic Americans would become more than double by 2060.

The article reports on the implications of the gender bias against the female fetus on the declining trend of the child sex ration in India.

The article presents a report released by the Central Statistical Organization based in India which reveals the decline in girl child numbers as compared to male children in India in the year 2011.

The article reports that the number of men is greater than women in five special municipalities of Taiwan including Taipei, New Taipei City and Taichung.

The article offers information on a pilot study made by Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut on India's sex ratio according to which the imbalance in the ratio is due to complex family dynamics.

The article offers information on the concern expressed by Indian President Pratibha Patil over the skewed sex ratio in India.

The article offers world news briefs in South Asia. It reports the launch of a campaign in Nepal to attract more tourists to Lumbini. In India, President Pratibha Patil has showed concern over the decreasing sex ratio in the country. In Pakistan, cricket player turned into politician, Imran Khan, has rebutted charges that he is anti-West.

The article offers news briefs on miscellaneous topics, including the impact of changes in the U.S. economy in lowering gas prices, information the survey related to examine the ratio of sex interest of same age group in Australia and the drop in graduation rates from high schools in Wisconsin.

The article reports on the decline in the child sex ratio in India from 927 females against 1,000 males to 914 females against 1,000 males as revealed in the 2011 Census report.

A review on Feb. 6 about ''The Magnetic North,'' by Sara Wheeler, included a quotation from the book that contained an erroneous summary of research conducted by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). While the group has hypothesized that unusual sex ratios in the newborns of some Arctic populations might in some way be connected with pollutants, it has repeatedly stressed that causality has not been determined and that further studies are needed before conclusive statements can be made about any such connection. AMAP has not maintained that ''endocrine-disrupting chemicals handed up the food chain have triggered changes in the sex of unborn children in the first three weeks of gestations, resulting in the birth of twice as many girls as boys in some villages in Greenland and among the Inuit nations of eastern Russia.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers a look at the impact of the one child policy in China on the sex ration in the country.

More boys than girls are born all over the world, but a new study has found that the closer people live to the equator, the smaller the difference becomes. No one knows why. The skewed sex ratio at birth has been known for more than a hundred years, and researchers have found a large variety of social, economic and biological factors that correlate with it -- war, economic stress, age, diet, selective abortion or infanticide and more. Teasing out the contribution of any single cultural or political variable has proved an almost infinitely complicated exercise. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article features economist Emily Oster and her explanation for the missing women problem in China. Oster proposed that the high ratio of men to women in China was due not only to a pronounced parental preference for sons but also because of the effects of the hepatitis B virus. According to the article, Oster's explanation strengthened her reputation as a rising star. Oster says that newly available data prove that the hepatitis B virus does not explain China's distorted sex ratios.

The article looks at the birth ratio between males and females in the Asia Pacific region. In the Philippines, 105 males are said to be born for every 100 females, while in Vietnam it is 107 males to 100 females. Other countries, such as Taiwan, China and South Korea, also showed such sex ratio. However, it is noted here, that because the death rate is higher in males, the population ratio somehow becomes equal.

The article reports on sex ratios of men and women and marriage practices in the United States .

The article reports that a State Department cable from 2010 in China has warned that the social consequences of the Chinese gender imbalance include an estimated excess of over 30 million unmarriageable males, a potentially destabilizing force that could lead to increased gender violence through demand for prostitution and trafficking in girls and women. The cable also said that the problem is the result of sex-selective abortions and post-natal discrimination.

Presents a question and answer section on the genetic ratio of human males to human females. Question as to why there are more females than males.

Comments that unmarried woman are becoming harder and harder to find in China--there are nearly three men for every two women. Reason for the relative scarcity; How the shortage may help improve the status of women there.

Focuses on the dating problems for black women at the Yale University due to their high ratio with respect to black men. Statistics on composition of students for the academic year 1994-95; Gender problems faced by black women in the campus; Other factors contributing to the problem.