Gender Imbalance in China Continues

"Anchors and Sales" newsletter ([email protected]) reports that gender imbalance in China, which stood at 100 girls to 117 boys in 2004, has been traced to the 1979 one-child policy.  This policy was implemented when it was noticed in the late 1960s that Chinese women were each having about six children, risking overpopulation.  However, an unintended result of this policy is that many parents favor, where possible, the birth of sons.  Despite the fact that the use of ultrasound for sex-selection abortions is illegal, it is suspected the practice is common.  As a result, some experts are predicting that by 2020 China will have 30 million young men unable to find wives.  To address this trend some rural areas such as Fujian province are permitting women to have two children, as long as they are spaced at least four years apart.  Some regions are even trying to assist parents who have girls, in a new program called “Caring for Girls" which provides free education to the college level for girls, or a monthly subsidy to the family.

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