Researchers investigated whether men or women have fewer children. Using international datasets, they demonstrate that imbalances in population structure, particularly an increasing proportion of men, affect male fertility. While men used to have higher fertility than women globally, this has reversed, and women have and will have a higher fertility rate than men. The scientists offer recommendations to counteract the social implications of this trend.
Turns out when you allow sex-selective abortions and inflate the importance of men above women, there’s more men in the population and more competition for being able to procreate.
TLDR There’s too many men around.
That’s so fucking made up. Every part of that sentence is made up.
Here is actual information: "This is what the World Health Organization (WHO) considers the “expected sex ratio at birth”, which means that, in the absence of gender discrimination or interference, it’s expected that there would be around 105 boys born per 100 girls — although this can range from around 103 to 107 boys per 100 girls.”
https://ourworldindata.org/gender-ratio
The world ratio at birth is 105.2 which almost exactly the expected “no gender discrimination range”
Sure some countries have SOME effect caused by gender discrimination, but gender discrimination before birth is in no way a globally significant contributor to excess males at birth.
If you read the article and the study it references, selective sex abortion has affected these numbers.
Its not the only reason, but this is also not my only comment about it here.
Sure, it’s a contributor, everything is a contributor. But the main thing is that young men aren’t dying like they used to in the past. That’s the primary mechanism skewing gender fertility ratios. Sex selective abortions are relevant in some countries to some extent, but globally are almost nothing. It’s a red herring.
When you have 5 extra boys born for every 100 girls the default position is there are more reproductive aged men than women. The fact we haven’t had that has been because young boys and men disproportionately died compared to young girls and women globally. Modern medicine, laws, and general peace in most of the world has stopped that trend.
If it’s a contributor, then it isn’t all fucking made up, now is it?
Where’s your data suggesting that sex-selective abortions have resulted in less women being born in the U.S.? Cuz the last time I checked, which was admittedly quite some time ago so I’m not sure about the numbers now, most abortions in the U.S. happen before the point where you can determine a babies gender.