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- Title
Gender imbalances in history: causes, consequences and social adjustment.
- Authors
Courtwright, David T
- Abstract
This article surveys the causes, consequences and social adjustments of gender-imbalanced populations. Though recent studies emphasize the role of medical technology in creating gender imbalances, historical and biological evidence shows that they have deeper and more tangled roots. Female-selective abortion, sperm sorting and other innovations are essentially new wrinkles in a very old social problem. How past societies struggled with and rectified gender imbalances offers insight into how contemporary and future societies might do so--and into the price they will pay if they ignore the problem.
- Publication
Reproductive biomedicine online, 2008, Vol 16 Suppl 1, p32
- ISSN
1472-6483
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/s1472-6483(10)60397-5