Every time I hear yet someone else blame China’s erstwhile 1-child policy for its skewed gender ratio, I wonder if they know how it’s such the convenient, politically correct scapegoat for what is instead a deeply shameful Asian problem.
Worse than China’s already skewed gender imbalance, by 2060 in India, the peak could be even higher: 191 men for each 100 women (Anand, Geeta and Jaeyeon Woo. 2015. “Asia Struggles for a Solution to Its ‘Missing Women’ Problem”, Wall Street Journal (27 Nov)).