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Mapping the Adverse Consequences of Sex Selection and Gender Imbalance in India and China
Rapid fertility declines in China and India and the advent of technologies for sex determination have contributed to the birth of fewer girls. As a result, both countries today have an excess of males and a shortage of females. Much of the work on adverse sex ratios until now has largely dealt with the identification, patterns, and causes of skewed sex ratios, and not their consequences. This review examines the emerging literature on the social consequences of the gender imbalance, and the five papers that follow explore the relationship of sex ratios with other social dimensions.
I would like to thank the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies for funding a project on the social consequences of skewed sex ratios and the UNFPA for funding the workshop held in November 2012 in which the papers were presented and discussed. I would also like to thank all the subject experts who provided valuable comments on the papers.
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