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160 Million “missing” women

“The tragedy of the world’s 160 million missing girls isn’t that they’re “missing.” The tragedy is that they’re dead.” In 1990, the economist Amartya Sen published an essay in The New York Review of Books with a bombshell title: “ … Continue reading

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Family planning in China: future of gender equity unwritten

Even though China sticks to its’ national family planning policy, the country recently promised to improve its’ policies in aspects like reproduction, migration and gender equality to achieve a more balanced and sustainable population development. Under the “one child policy” … Continue reading

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